CHAPTER FIVE

Figure 5.2. Results from the mapping of areas of degradation by selective logging for the year 1999. The Landsat images in which logging was detected are shown shaded in gray. The individual locations of logging areas are shown as black outlines and dots. Most of the logging is occurring in regions where there is intensive deforestation in the state of Para, with additional logging in Mato Grosso. Rondonia had logging in 1999 but it was not detected in any previous years. In such cases, it is highly likely that logged areas are rapidly converted to deforestation and hence those areas get mapped in the deforestation mapping procedure.

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