Northern Paraguay, South America

April 8, 1986

September 10, 1996

Massive replacement of temperate woodland (Chacoan dry forest) by agriculture. Areas of forest are represented as shades of red and brown while areas of agriculture are cyan in color. (Total area: 62 square km.)

Global Land Cover Change

· Binga, Congo

· British Columbia,
Canada

· Global Change Map

· MODIS Vegetation

· Paraguay, South
America

· Santa Cruz, Bolivia

· Sakhalin Island, Russia

· Sterling, Virginia, USA

Quick Links

· Large Scale
Biosphere-Atmosphere
Experiment in Amazonia

· NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Program

· NASA's Terra Satellite

· Terra's MODIS

University of Maryland Department of Geography