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INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

Brazil's national space research institute, based at Sao Jose dos Campos in Sao Paulo state, and the reason the Amazon has a deforestation record at all.

-23.2, -45.9 · approximate · institutional origins in the early 1960s, under its present name from the early 1970s; PRODES from 1988, DETER from 2004

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