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Nusantara, Kalimantan

Rainforest cleared for Indonesia's new capital city.

520.4 hectares changed — vegetation cleared · Before: 1 Jun 2019 – 15 Sep 2019 · After: 1 Jun 2024 – 15 Sep 2024 · -0.990, 116.700

BEFORE 2019-09

AFTER 2024-09

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520.4 haarea changed

105areas flagged

10,020 haarea examined

2satellites used

What changed, by type

447.5 haVegetation cleared

54.7 haNew vegetation

7.3 haWater disappeared

6.4 haBurnt ground

2.4 haNew construction / earthworks

2.1 haNew water / flooding

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 — 182.9 ha
5.1 km north-east · between 5 Sep 2019 and 5 Jun 2024 · 90% sure

Vegetation cleared — 49.5 ha
5.1 km south-east · between 5 Sep 2019 and 5 Jun 2024 · 94% sure

Vegetation cleared — 34.2 ha
1.8 km south · between 15 Sep 2019 and 15 Jul 2024 · 85% sure

Vegetation cleared — 18.4 ha
6.2 km south-west · between 3 Sep 2019 and 5 Jun 2024 · 87% sure

Vegetation cleared — 16.8 ha
4.3 km south-east · between 31 Aug 2019 and 5 Jun 2024 · 92% sure

How sure is this?

The strongest area (#1) has 90% confidence. It appears in 2 of 3 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 50 seconds.

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