Understanding Rewilding South Africa’s Greater Kruger with GEDI
  • December 9, 2025
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  • “Scientists from Jody Vogeler’s lab at Colorado State University, for instance, are leading an ongoing NASA-funded project aimed at assessing rewilding-driven changes and helping wildlife managers and policymakers use remote sensing to support decision-making in the region. As part of the effort, the researchers published a draft study in summer 2025 that detailed an innovative technique for fusing several types of satellite data to assess changes in the region’s woody vegetation across three dimensions.”

    Read more here!  Story by Cathy Ching and Adam Voiland for NASA’s The Earth Observatory.

    This map shows changes in canopy cover between 2017 and 2021 in and around Thornybush Nature Reserve in South Africa. The reserve is outlined and labeled, with Kruger National Park to the east and the town of Acornhoek to the south. Shades of brown and green indicate canopy cover change: brown areas show decreases in canopy cover (down to –10 percent), while green areas show increases (up to +10 percent). Thornybush Nature Reserve is mostly brown, indicating canopy loss due to the removal of fences and an increase in the elephant population.

    NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data from Filippelli, S., et al. (2025)

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