After the global financial crisis in 2008, an increased
demand for gold lead to a massive increase in mining in the area. The
majority of the gold mining is illegal but because it is small-scale and
done in secret, it has been difficult for the Peruvian government to
police.
Greg Asner, a professor at Stanford’s Carnegie Department of Global Ecology, has been developing a software called ClASlite
that detects deforestation by analyzing satellite and aerial imagery.
Asner has been working with the Peruvian government, developing a
special version of the software calibrated to detect gold mines. What
the software has found is striking.
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