Comments on: New satellite imaging reveals rainforest devastation https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=450 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:15:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: sieber https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=450&cpage=1#comment-1960 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:15:27 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=450#comment-1960 These are vast areas. Obviously, people in communities know what’s going on. But if you want a global scale look at environmental impacts, this is a good, albeit computer-intensive, way to do it.

]]> By: liam https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=450&cpage=1#comment-1957 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:29:17 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=450#comment-1957 It’s interesting that the system is able to determine this, but it also makes me wonder, could the same result be realized with a low-tech look around suspect regions, for less money? I recognize there are probably more political issues to confront with having people on the ground doing this sort of thing, but it seems like a couple of people poking around the fringes would be able to point out that, whoops, those old scary images of deforestation still aren’t telling the whole story.

At the same time, the system probably originated for some military application somewhere, so I suppose any positive uses are better than none.

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