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Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Landsat observed the loss of 3.7 million hectares (14,000 square miles) of tropical forest.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer and park boundary data from Protected Planet. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published September 26, 2012
Data acquired February 13, 1999

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM