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A new study published in Nature investigates how climate influences the amount of carbon stored in tropical forests, revealing that these relationships vary significantly across different regions and environmental conditions. Led by Matheus Henrique Nunes, the research analyzed approximately 16 million aboveground biomass estimates derived from NASA’s GEDI spaceborne lidar [...]

gedih3 is a new open toolkit that makes NASA’s GEDI spaceborne lidar — billions of laser measurements of the world’s forests — into analysis-ready data at any scale. Since 2019, the GEDI mission — a joint effort between NASA and the University of Maryland aboard the International Space Station — [...]

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters uses NASA’s GEDI spaceborne lidar observations to investigate forest recovery and structural diversity in the humid tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study includes among its authors David Roy and Chris Hakkenberg, members of the GEDI Science Team, and [...]

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New publication out in Remote Sensing of Environment: “Global and boreal estimates of woody aboveground biomass for 2020: Filling GEDI’S northern data gap with ICESat-2 and harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2” Abstract: Forest aboveground biomass Density (AGBD) maps provide important constraints on climate and carbon cycle models and enable the long-term monitoring of [...]

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013090/GEDI_B-roll-20181008_youtube_1080.mp4 GEDI INSTRUMENT UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT NASA GSFC. READ MORE: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13090   GEDI is a full-waveform lidar instrument that makes detailed measurements of the 3D structure of the Earth’s surface. Lidar is an active remote sensing technology (the laser version of radar) which uses pulses of laser light to measure [...]

GEDI produces the first high resolution laser ranging observations of the 3D structure of the Earth. GEDI makes precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure, and surface elevation. GEDI’s enables Earth to Action applications such as forest inventory and analysis, topography mapping, ecosystem services valuation, finance, etc. GEDI [...]