Isolated Amazon Tribes Monitored with Space-Age Technology

The vast jungles of the Amazon rainforest harbor tribes mostly isolated from the outside world, whose way of life, largely unchanged for millennia, is now increasingly threatened by intrusions from modern civilization. The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rainforest in the world— about 10 percent of all known species on Earth dwell there. One way to collect this data involves flying over their villages, but such overflights are both expensive and invasive, and could instill fear among these indigenous peoples. Instead, scientists investigated whether satellite imaging could monitor uncontacted tribes.

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