";s:4:"text";s:3176:" According to the latest report by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Brazilian agency that monitors deforestation, between … Brazil’s National Space Research Institute INPE resumed releasing deforestation data after nearly a month-long hiatus that followed the firing of the agency’s director on August 2. The Brazilian president accuses the national space agency of exaggerating the scale of deforestation. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) celebrates in 2011 its 50th anniversary, and has the mission to produce high quality of science and technology in the space and terrestrial environment areas, and to offer unique products and services for Brazilian benefit. Multiple news outlets are reporting that Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported a record 72,843 fires this year, an 80 percent increase from last year. 1) indicate that, by 2003, forest cleared in Br azilian Amazonia had reached 648.5 × 10³ km² (16.2% In official Brazilian data, such as those from Project for Monitoring the Brazilian Amazon Forest by Satellite (PRODES), run by the National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais [INPE]), deforestation refers to the clearing of primary or old-growth forest, not to the clearing of secondary forests. LANDSAT data interpreted at Brazil’s Nationa l Institute for Space Research (INPE) (Fig. Today the figure is closer to 60 percent, according to research by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and its Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). Brazil’s space agency, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), has reported the lowest rate (km²/yr) of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 when the agency began its annual space-based assessments. Note that the year corresponds to the annual cycle in the Amazon so that, for example, the data for Year 2017 cover August 2016 through July 2017. INPE's headquarters are in Sao Jose dos Campos (SP), but it also has facilities in other places around the country. Deforestation in the Cerrado, a vast wooded savannah bordering the southern and eastern Brazilian Amazon, increased by 9% in 2017 compared to 2016, according to … The country's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released data Monday revealing that 3,769 square miles of rainforest were lost to deforestation … Last year, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research recorded the highest deforestation rate since 2008.