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Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking

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The History of Deforestation in Bolivia

You worked with NASA on mapping deforestation in Bolivia, which I believe at the time was the one of the first ones done in South America. The satellite image, you know, Landsat, which was the first relatively moderate resolution satellite went up in 1985 or 1986. Now they have all this, now we have multiple satellites taking on different days. And now they have the ability to make composite images. Back in the day, you had to have a single image, all right, from the whole, what they call the scene.

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