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The Landsat archive is the world's
longest continuously collected

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record of the Earth's surface.

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In mid September, it notched
another milestone

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by adding its nine millionth scene.

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This particular image
from north central Paraguay

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helps tell the kind of story
that only a long historical record

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like Landsat can.

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The rectangular tracks of brown and tan
that dapple the landscape

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between the states of Boqueron and
Upper Paraguay

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signal deforestation.

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Land is cleared through controlled
burns to make way

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for crops like soybeans, or
to make room for livestock.

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The nine millionth scene even
shows an active fire.

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One Landsat-based study found
that some 44,000 square kilometers

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of forest were lost between 1987
and 2012.

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This animation shows the dramatic
decline in forested land.

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The Landsat archive continues
to grow.

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This chart shows the growth in
Landsat scene coverage

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since the launch of the first
orbiter in 1972.

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The launch of Landsat 9 in 2021
will maintain the continuity

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of this one-of-a-kind
scientific resource.

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