Science Visualized Ecosystems

Online map tracks forest shifts from space

FOREST MAP  A new tool layers satellite images onto a Google map to show changes in forest cover.

M. Hansen et al/Science 2013

By Meghan Rosen

- More than 2 years ago

By layering more than 650,000 satellite images onto a Google map, researchers have created a new tool to track forest cover.

The online tool, described in the Nov.