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Novo Progresso, Pará

Forest giving way to pasture along the BR-163 highway.

1,114.4 hectares changed — vegetation cleared · Before: 1 Jun 2019 – 15 Sep 2019 · After: 1 Jun 2024 – 15 Sep 2024 · -7.100, -55.400

BEFORE 2019-09

AFTER 2024-09

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1,114.4 haarea changed

188areas flagged

10,020 haarea examined

2satellites used

What changed, by type

805.6 haVegetation cleared

193.1 haNew vegetation

111.1 haBurnt ground

2.4 haNew construction / earthworks

2.2 haWater disappeared

Land changes in both directions at once. SCOPE reports every type it measured, not only the one that makes the better headline.

What SCOPE found

Vegetation cleared — 141.7 ha
2.5 km north-west · between 10 Aug 2019 and 20 Aug 2019 · 95% sure

Vegetation cleared — 94.4 ha
4.6 km south · between 10 Aug 2019 and 20 Aug 2019 · 94% sure

Vegetation cleared — 69.1 ha
4.8 km north · between 16 Jul 2019 and 10 Aug 2019 · 95% sure

Vegetation cleared — 39.1 ha
4.9 km south-east · between 20 Aug 2019 and 9 Sep 2019 · 96% sure

Vegetation cleared — 35.8 ha
2.3 km north · between 9 Sep 2019 and 14 Jun 2024 · 96% sure

How sure is this?

The strongest area (#1) has 95% confidence. It appears in 6 of 6 later clear images, so it is not a one-day artefact. Radar confirmed some of these areas; the others rest on optical and seasonal evidence. Compared with the same season in earlier years, this is clearly unusual. Confidence measures how strong the evidence for real surface change is; it does not identify the cause or who did it.

How it was measured

SCOPE used Sentinel-2 optical imagery at 10 m, cloud-masked and combined over each period, Sentinel-1 radar as an independent check , and the same season in earlier years so normal seasonal change is not reported as real change. The analysis took 30 seconds.

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