Monitoring deforestation with Landsat - 8 satellite

Despite the fact that forests are a renewable resource, the rate of deforestation is too high and is not covered by the rate of reproduction. Millions of hectares of deciduous and coniferous forests are destroyed every year.

Forest loss is a global environmental problem. More than a million species living in tropical forests are at risk of extinction.

An algorithm for automated detection of deforestation is made using satellite images of the area of ​​interest at different times by comparing index images and identifying areas where changes have occurred.