LINKS TO SPACE IMAGES SITES 
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Click below to see go to the rainforest space images websites:
• GLOBAL RESOURCE INFORMATION DATABASE (DEC '04)
http://www.grid.inpe.br/
Complete satellite image (low-resolution) library of Brazilian Amazonia, with clickable
map. (Follow the links: Data sets > Amazonia From Space.)
• NASA CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE (DEC '04)
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tplandsatset.html
Classroom exercises in analysis of environmental change with computer-based activities using a Landset database of satellites images from Brazil.
• NASA (JOHNSON SPACE CENTER) SPACE SHUTTLE (DEC '04)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10928
Images from STS 107 (last flight of Columbia) show complex interactions between smoke and the atmosphere.
http://www.op.dlr.de/ne-hf/SRL-2/p44716_mana1.html
Images from space shuttle Endeavour show complex patterns where the the Rio Negro joins the main stream of
the Amazon River near, Brazil.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-79/html/sts079-785-102.html
Image from STS 079 shows effects of economic activity on forest cover in Rondonia.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-88/html/s88e5028.html
Image from STS-088 (Endeavour) shows partial cloud cover above the mouth of the Amazon.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/humanimprints/slide_22.html
Oblique view of the Amazon basin shows a pall of smoke covering Bolivia.
• US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH AND INFORMATION OFFICE (DEC '04)
http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol3no2/article2fig4.html
Consequences: The nature and implications of environmental change—Two
side-by-side satellite images, one taken 1975, the other in
1992 show the extent of clear-cutting in the state of Rondonia.
More Amazon-related space image links will be added shortly.
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