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    • Title The Amazon River
    • Released 18/10/2013 10:00 am
    • Copyright KARI/ESA
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      This Kompsat-2 image, acquired on 6 July 2012, shows the Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil’s rainforest. The false colour makes land vegetation appear pink, while water appears green and dark blue. In the upper-right corner, we can see some sparse clouds. The shades of pink vary – the bolder colour representing thick vegetation with lighter pink showing where trees were possibly cut down. In fact, in the upper-left portion of the image, there’s a clear line between the two shades, showing where vegetation was cut. The white dots show man-made structures. With their unique view from space, Earth observation satellites have been instrumental in highlighting the vulnerability of the rainforests by documenting the scale of deforestation.

       

      This image is featured  on the Earth from Space video programme.

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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • System KOMPSat, Third-Party missions
    • Location Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
    • Keywords Forests and deforestation, River, Satellite image
    • Set Earth observation image of the week

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