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Shifting Cultivation in Laos

A detailed analysis of satellite data reveals the expansion of land that has been converted from forest to impermanent farmland.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Shifting Cultivation in Laos.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Chen, Shijuan, et al. (2023). Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published August 21, 2023
Data acquired 1991 - 2020