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GEDI launched on SpaceX-16 on December 5th, 2018, from Cape Canaveral. GEDI was then extracted from the Dragon capsule’s trunk by the ISS’s robotic arms and passed along the length of the space station to the Japanese Experiment Module – Exposed Facility (JEM-EF), where it was attached to power, coolant [...]

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 radically improves our ability to understand important atmospheric and water cycling processes, biodiversity, and habitat. GEDI has been deployed [...]

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Upcoming NASA ARSET training: Spaceborne Lidar for Monitoring Vegetation Structure and Biomass using GEDI This ARSET training walks participants through the theoretical background of GEDI lidar capabilities by learning to access and plot GEDI data. Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish. English Session: Oct. 23 – Nov. 6, 2025,11:00 [...]

A new GEDI-FIA fusion product was released in April 2025! This dataset includes interpolated cumulative waveforms, with uncertainties, over national forest inventory (FIA) field plots (Burrill et al., 2024) across the contiguous United States. The predicted waveforms are for the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument, which produces high resolution laser [...]

2022 EGU General Assembly Li, N., Pfeifer, N., Zotta, R. M., Dostalova, A., & Hollaus, M. (2022). Exploration of space-borne LiDAR data for forest parameter retrieval for Alpine regions (No. EGU22-9341). Copernicus Meetings. Shendryk, Y. (2022). Fusing GEDI, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and elevation data for seasonal forest biomass mapping across Australia, EGU [...]