Earthtopomaps – Deforestation in Tierras Bajas, Bolivia
This false-color image shows the gradual conversion of forest lands for agricultural use in the Tierras Bajas region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as observed by the Thematic Mapper (TM) flying aboard Landsat 5.
Earthtopomaps – Deforestation in Tierras Bajas, Bolivia
Forest and woodland are represented as grey tones from Channel 5 in this TM scene, collected in 1998. Other colors indicate the first year in which a site was developed for agriculture:. (See color scale in the image:. Which corresponds to years of development).
In this scene, land use types are delineated with lines. Solid white lines show the locations of planned colonies, dashed white lines show spontaneous colonies:.
And dotted white lines show Mennonite colonies. All other regions of development are non-Mennonite industrial soybean farms.
Natural vegetation formations in this image are delineated with black lines. Solid black lines show the locations of Northern Chaco Woodlands and dashed black lines show Cerrado regions.
For more information, see this previous Image of the Day regarding Bolivian deforestation.
This image from Landsat7, acquired on August 1, 2000, shows the new agricultural settlements east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia in an area of tropical dry forest.
Since the mid-1980s, this region has been rapidly deforested as a result of the resettlement of people from the Altiplano (the Andean high plains) and a large agricultural development effort, called the Tierras Baja project. The pie or radial patterned fields (left) are part of the San Javier resettlement scheme. At the center of each unit is a small community including a church, bar/cafe, school, and soccer field-the essentials of life in rural Bolivia. The rectilinear, light-colored areas (right) are fields of soybeans cultivated for export that are mostly funded by foreign loans. The dark strips running through these fields are wind breaks. These are advantageous because the soils in this area are fine and prone to wind erosion.
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Earthtopomaps – Deforestation in Tierras Bajas, Bolivia
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