NASA forest structure mission releases first data

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2020

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation mission (GEDI) released its first publicly available data on January 21, 2020, giving researchers access to measurements of forests around the world. GEDI (pronounced like the Jedi of "Star Wars" fame) surveys Earth's forests from aboard the International Space Station, using its three lasers to construct detailed 3-dimensional (3D) maps of fo