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Watching over the Amazon forest by remote sensing

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Continental biodiversity and plants improvement, Observation and modeling tools - Brazil, Guyana

February 2003

The Amazon Basin covers around 5.8 million km² and is the world's largest expanse of tropical forest. However, intensive deforestation has for several decades now been exerting an impact.

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