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File:Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil - August 12, 2007.jpg

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English: In this image, intact forest is deep green, while cleared areas are tan (bare ground) or light green (crops, pasture, or occasionally, second-growth forest). The fish bone pattern of small clearings along new roads is the beginning of one of the common deforestation trajectories in the Amazon.
Date 12 August 2007
Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon

Image based on data from the MODIS science team.

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Number of components 3
Horizontal resolution 100 dpi
Vertical resolution 100 dpi
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Software used Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
File change date and time 11:00, 26 May 2009
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