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Forests Learning Resources
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The SAR Handbook was created in 2019 as a guide for forest monitoring and biomass estimation with synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
Data Basics
April 16, 2025
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Read publication highlights that detail how ECOSTRESS data reveals water use efficiency patterns, GEDI enables precise forest carbon mapping, and moisture measurements improve wildfire prediction and management.
Data in Action
Aug. 25, 2022
Read highlights of three publications that detail how NASA Earth observation data informs forest structure mapping, disease vector tracking, and mineral identification.
Data in Action
April 26, 2021
Using simulated Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data, a science team predicted bird occurrence probability in California.
Data in Action
March 10, 2020
See how NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) uses land cover and vegetation continuous fields data to highlight land cover changes.
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Jan. 16, 2020
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