Eyes in the sky put illegal logging in focus

Cambodia’s illegal loggers will soon have a potentially powerful new foe: a pair of NASA satellites with a keen interest in what they’re up to. Researchers at the University of Maryland in the U.S. say an innovative new system that picks up signs of forest loss from space in near-real time—and with finer precision than ever before—could be watching over Cambodia by early next year. …

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https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eyes-sky-put-illegal-logging-focus-121259/