
The Making of a Forest
Landscape change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1953-2017 This series of interactive maps are a sequel to the ones I launched in 2014. They show deforestation and reforestation in national parks at the border between Brazil and Argentina, between the 1950s and the 2010s. They use as source aerial imagery unearthed from Brazilian archives and historical satellite pictures, including some from US spy satellites from the 1960s. The visualizations show the impressive environmental change occurring in almost seven decades, when this […]
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