Jane Goodall’s foundation used Landsat, the U.S. satellite program, to help monitor deforestation.
Landsat satellites repeatedly image Earth’s surface, allowing conservationists to compare forest cover over time. For the Jane Goodall Institute, those observations helped map habitat, identify forest loss and understand how changes around chimpanzee ecosystems affected both wildlife and nearby communities.
The work fits into a broader conservation strategy developed around Gombe and other African landscapes. Satellite imagery can reveal patterns that ground patrols might miss, while geographic-information-system tools combine those images with maps of villages, roads, protected areas and chimpanzee ranges.
Landsat is often confused with weather or space-observation programs such as GOES, Hubble or Voyager. GOES focuses mainly on weather, Hubble is a space telescope, and Voyager explored the outer Solar System. Landsat’s defining role is systematic land observation, making it especially useful for tracking forests and deforestation.