The team, led by Matthew Hansen, a remote sensing scientist at the University of Maryland, calculated that since 2000, the world lost 888,000 square miles (2.3 million km 2) of forest and gained ...

high-resolution satellite imagery, the job of monitoring deforestation in tropical forests just got a lot easier. Planet uses satellites to capture images of the Earth on a daily basis.

But the power of the map lies in its granularity which comes from its 30 meter resolution ... rainforests and dense tropical dry forests of Africa and Eurasia also had high rates of loss.” ...