{"id":70756,"date":"2020-11-26T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallagher-photo.com\/?p=70756"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:43:42","slug":"google-earth-satellite-timelapses-reveal-true-scale-of-deforestation-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallagher-photo.com\/google-earth-satellite-timelapses-reveal-true-scale-of-deforestation-in-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth Satellite Timelapses Reveal True Scale of Deforestation in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Followers of my work this year will know that I have spent a lot of time sharing work from my recent project, Cambodia Burning<\/a>. This work, supported by the Pulitzer Center<\/a>, was carried out in February 2020 and highlighted the impacts of rampant deforestation and forest fires on the people and landscapes of the country. The project was featured in both Yale Environment 360<\/a> and with National Geographic<\/a>, with a short film<\/a> also released with the same title.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, I have turned my attention to looking at the historical trends of deforestation in Cambodia using the powerful Google Earth Engine<\/a>. According to Google, it \u201ccombines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth’s surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary – Wide View of Eastern Area<\/h4>\n