Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali - selected image

Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali - selected child image

Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali - related image preview

Data acquired August 23, 2017
720 x 600
JPEG

Data acquired August 23, 2017
5574 x 4858
3 MB - JPEG

Data acquired August 21, 2022
720 x 600
JPEG

Data acquired August 21, 2022
5574 x 4858
3 MB - JPEG

Data acquired August 18, 2021
720 x 480
JPEG

Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali

A remote oil and logging road first established in eastern Peru in the 1980s has become a hub for forest clearing.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by William Villacorta/Upper Amazon Conservancy. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 25, 2022
Data acquired August 23, 2017 - August 21, 2022

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Photograph

Collections:: Amazon Deforestation; Applied Sciences