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Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos Showing 40 Years of Environmental Destruction in the Amazon

07/30/2012
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  • Deforestation in Malaysian Borneo
    Landsat and Google Earth Engine may have created the closest thing we have ever seen to a virtual time machine. Forty years of satellite images of the Earth's surface have been organized, compiled, and edited to make amazing time-lapse videos. Now, for the first time, we're able to see the result of decades of human activity on the world's ecosystems and the startling rates of environmental destruction, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-landsat-create-time-lapse-videos-showing-40-years-of-environmental-destruction-in-the-amazon/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Landsat Satellite
    Landsat and Google Earth Engine may have created the closest thing we have ever seen to a virtual time machine. Forty years of satellite images of the Earth's surface have been organized, compiled, and edited to make amazing time-lapse videos. Now, for the first time, we're able to see the result of decades of human activity on the world's ecosystems and the startling rates of environmental destruction, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-landsat-create-time-lapse-videos-showing-40-years-of-environmental-destruction-in-the-amazon/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Landsat images of deforstation in Bolivia
    Landsat and Google Earth Engine may have created the closest thing we have ever seen to a virtual time machine. Forty years of satellite images of the Earth's surface have been organized, compiled, and edited to make amazing time-lapse videos. Now, for the first time, we're able to see the result of decades of human activity on the world's ecosystems and the startling rates of environmental destruction, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-landsat-create-time-lapse-videos-showing-40-years-of-environmental-destruction-in-the-amazon/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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Deforestation in Malaysian Borneo

Landsat and Google Earth Engine may have created the closest thing we have ever seen to a virtual time machine. Forty years of satellite images of the Earth's surface have been organized, compiled, and edited to make amazing time-lapse videos. Now, for the first time, we're able to see the result of decades of human activity on the world's ecosystems and the startling rates of environmental destruction, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest....

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