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Aboveground Biomass in Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Aboveground biomass (AGB) density maps of Kalimantan forests. (A) AGB density, and (B) mean density AGB aggregated by land cover class. From Ferraz et al., 2018.

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A new dataset from the Carbon Monitoring System provides forest biomass, canopy height, and degradation maps across the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

Soil Moisture Datasets Become Fertile Ground for Applications

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Installation and maintenance of in situ soil moisture sensors require extensive fieldwork. Here Ruzbeh Akbar installs sensors at a SoilSCAPE site in California. (Photo Credit: University of Southern California's SoilSCAPE project)

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An update on the ORNL DAAC's Soil Moisture Visualizer (SMV) is featured in AGU's Eos, Earth & Space Science News.

Vegetation Changes Along Alaskan Rivers

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Riverbank erosion and vegetation colonization at the Yukon River 1 study area, located along the Middle Yukon River between Circle and Fort Yukon, Alaska, from 1985-2017.

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Research from NASA's ABoVE campaign provides a record of riverbank erosion and vegetation colonization along major Alaskan rivers from 1984 to 2017.

Climate and Productivity of Arctic Tundra

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Arctic biweekly NDVI (green bars) and trend (grey bars) for full tundra for 1999-2015. Biweekly trends statistically significant at the 95% level or greater are marked with an asterisk on the x-axis. From Figure 9 (c) Bhatt et al. (2017) (see dataset documentation).

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NASA's ABoVE provides standardized data on potential climate drivers for productivity of Arctic tundra vegetation.