INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
Brazil's national space research institute begins producing an annual wall-to-wall satellite map of clear-cut deforestation across the Legal Amazon. It is the decision that makes everything downstream possible: without a consistent series measured the same way each year, none of the later claims about rates rising, falling or accelerating would be checkable.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) · institution · Brazil
- Satellite Deforestation Monitoring · technology system · Brazil · not located
- Amazon Deforestation · ecological phenomenon · Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
PRODES - Monitoring of the Brazilian Amazon Forest by Satellite
Supports the existence, method and shape of the annual clear-cut deforestation series for the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 1988 onward. V55 verification basis: the TerraBrasilis portal was probed in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED; no annual value was retrieved. Every specific PRODES figure referred to in this pack is described as commonly reported and flagged as unchecked in the record that mentions it.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil · 1988-present · Partly verified
INPE PRODES annual deforestation series for the Legal Amazon, published via the TerraBrasilis portal
Recorded on INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
- INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
- PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
- The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
- Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
- INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data
- Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
- Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade · 2024
- Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s · 2021
- INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data · 2019
- Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level · 2012
- The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed · 2006
- PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin · 2004
- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record · 1995