Title: Envisat tracks deforestation in Brazil

Description: This Envisat radar image is a multi-layer composite, made by merging three different acquisitions taken in 2005 and 2006. The image shows a large area along the Rio Arinos (lower right border) an area north of Cuiabà (Brazil), in the state of Mato Grosso. Originally uniform tropical rain forest dissected by a course drainage pattern, the area is now a patchwork of deforested zones (light violet and brown colour), sprawling along roads and around centres.

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