From Forest to Field in Pará

The Santarém plateau in the northern Brazilian state displays a patchwork of cleared and uncleared land bordering a densely forested conservation area.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story From Forest to Field in Pará.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 23, 2025
Data acquired September 23, 2024

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI