{"id":221604,"date":"2014-10-16T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"f438d76b157c3f43ed813160127e11c3"},"modified":"2014-10-16T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T08:51:00","slug":"proba-v-image-of-western-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221604","title":{"rendered":"Proba-V image of western Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/proba-v_image_of_western_brazil\/14975828-4-eng-GB\/Proba-V_image_of_western_Brazil_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDeforestation in the state of Rond\u00f4nia in western Brazil, as imaged by ESA\u2019s Proba-V minisatellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 300 m-resolution image reveals the human impact on the world\u2019s largest tropical rainforest. The brownish colours indicate deforested areas \u2013 note the distinctive \u2018fishbone\u2019 pattern as main roads are cut through an area, followed by secondary roads for further clearing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nINPE, the Brazilian Institute for Space Research, uses satellites to monitor Brazil\u2019s rainforests. Its results show the annual rate of deforestation has fallen from some 3900 sq km in 2004 to 900 sq km in 2013, although substantial amounts of precious forest are still disappearing every day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe camera\u2019s continent-spanning field of view collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands, ideal for monitoring plant and forest growth as well as inland water bodies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V\u2019s images are processed and distributed to hundreds of scientific users by VITO, Belgium\u2019s Flemish Institute for Technological Research, extending the coverage of previous generations of the Vegetation camera flown on the Spot-4 and Spot-5 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/proba-v_image_of_western_brazil\/14975828-4-eng-GB\/Proba-V_image_of_western_Brazil_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDeforestation in the state of Rond\u00f4nia in western Brazil, as imaged by ESA\u2019s Proba-V minisatellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 300 m-resolution image reveals the human impact on the world\u2019s largest tropical rainforest. The brownish colours indicate deforested areas \u2013 note the distinctive \u2018fishbone\u2019 pattern as main roads are cut through an area, followed by secondary roads for further clearing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nINPE, the Brazilian Institute for Space Research, uses satellites to monitor Brazil\u2019s rainforests. Its results show the annual rate of deforestation has fallen from some 3900 sq km in 2004 to 900 sq km in 2013, although substantial amounts of precious forest are still disappearing every day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe camera\u2019s continent-spanning field of view collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands, ideal for monitoring plant and forest growth as well as inland water bodies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V\u2019s images are processed and distributed to hundreds of scientific users by VITO, Belgium\u2019s Flemish Institute for Technological Research, extending the coverage of previous generations of the Vegetation camera flown on the Spot-4 and Spot-5 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}