Satellite footage

21 moments in this segment.

1. 2000-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2000. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2000, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
2. 2001-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2001. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2001, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
3. 2002 — Smoke and Fires — MODIS, 2002. NASA Terra/MODIS view of Rondônia, 2002 — smoke from hundreds of clearing fires drifts over the fishbone of cleared land.
4. 2002-11-17 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2002. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2002, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
5. 2003-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2003. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2003, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
6. 2004-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2004. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2004, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
7. 2005-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2005. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2005, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
8. 2006-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2006. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2006, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
9. 2007-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2007. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2007, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
10. 2007 — Fires on the Amazon Frontier, 2007. August 12, 2007. Red dots mark active fires along the frontier where forest is being converted to farmland in Rondônia.
11. 2008-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2008. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2008, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
12. 2009 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2009. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2009, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
13. 2010 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2010. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2010, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
14. 2011-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2011. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2011, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
15. 2012-01-01 — Rondônia from Orbit — 2012. NASA satellite view of Rondônia in 2012, part of the Earth Observatory time series tracking the advance of clearing across the state.
16. 2014 — Rondônia Deforestation — 18 June 2014. Landsat view, June 18 2014. Intact forest (dark green) is steadily replaced by the pale geometric grid of pasture and crops.
17. 2015 — Rondônia Deforestation — 21 June 2015. Landsat view, June 21 2015 — a year on from the 2014 frame, the cleared corridors widening along the access roads.
18. 2016 — Rondônia Deforestation — 25 July 2016. Landsat view, July 25 2016. By now the original solid forest survives mainly as islands inside a sea of cleared land.
19. 2020-01-01 — Forty years from orbit. Time-lapse satellite imagery shows Rondônia's forest dissolving into farmland over four decades.
20. 2021-01-01 — INPE and the deforestation alarm. Brazil's INPE space agency measures the forest loss that spiked to record highs around 2020-2021.
21. 2022-08-01 — The scar seen from space. NASA and ESA satellites track the advancing deforestation front across the Brazilian Amazon.