Brazil Reports Lowest Rate of Amazonian Deforestation in Two Decades

Nov. 17 • Brazil's space agency, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), has reported the lowest rate (km²/yr) of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 when the agency began its annual space-based assessments. Brazil uses Landsat data as a key input for their systematic monitoring of Amazonian deforestation, a project known as PRODES (Estimate of Amazon Gross Deforestation Project). From August 2008 to August 2009, INPE reported a deforestation rate of 7,008 square kilometers.

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+ Project PRODES [external link; in Portuguese]
+ INPE confirms 7,008 km² of deforestation in the Amazon [external link]

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