NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Carbon Research

  • Released Friday, October 16, 2020
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Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering surprisingly high numbers of trees in semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land.

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