| Monitorando a Floresta
Amazônica O PRODES, além de fornecer estimativas da
extensão e  taxa 
 Adicionalmente, os  dados  do PRODES 
são  sobrepostos  ao 
 | Monitoring the Brazilian
Amazon Forest PRODES, in addition to the extent and rate of gross
deforestation, provides the spatial distribution of critical areas in the
Amazon. For instance, in 1997,  more  than   75%  
of   the   deforestation   was concentrated
in 46 of the satellite images analyzed. PRODES data 
 | 
Incrementos do desflorestamento
observado em 1997 sobre o Mapa de Vegetação do Brasil (FIBGE).
Increments of deforestation
observed in 1997 overlaid on the Brazilian Vegetation Map (FIBGE).
 
