What do you get when Google , the University of Maryland , andNASA ’s Landsat 7 satelliteteam up ? A very sobering view of man ’s shock on the ground . It only took us 12 twelvemonth to destroy all that forest .
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If the findings are disheartening , the method affect is at least fascinating . Using information from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus sensing element aboard NASA ’s Landsat 7 , the Google Earth Engine march over 650,000 image on 10,000 computers operating in parallel of latitude . That much processing would ’ve taken a single calculator 15 long time — during which metre , no doubt , we ’d find a way to go down on through even more forest . Check out thewhole environmental cogitation on Google Maps , or head over toGoogle ’s Research Blogfor the story behind the tech that made this possible The GIF , I entail . Not the disforestation . [ Google Research Blog ]
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