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GEDI Level 4B Gridded AGBD highlighted by NASA's Earthdata

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-04-09
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This screen capture from the GEDI L4B mean aboveground biomass density layer shows the crisscross pattern of GEDI's laser tracks on the Earth's terrestrial surface.

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GEDI Level 4B gridded estimates of mean AGBD are now available at greater accuracy and resolution than previously available.

Earthdata Article highlights importance of VIIRS Instruments

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-04-08
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Transitioning from MODIS to VIIRS to ensure data product continuity. Image Credit: NASA ESDIS Outreach Team.

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Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Instruments aboard the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites become more essential as Terra and Aqua drift from their traditional orbits.
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ABoVE: Annual Disturbance Agents, 1987-2012

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-03-31
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Casual agents of disturbance for the year 2006 in the ABoVE domain for tile BH19V15 (A) with the Tasseled Cap change (dTC) image in the same year for the same region (B). In the dTC image, Band_1 is change in brightness; Band_2 is change in greenness; Band_3 is change in wetness. The pixel resolution is 30 meters.

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Spatial data on disturbance agents of fire, insects, and logging in the ABoVE core domain at an annual time step from 1987-2012 and 30 m resolution.
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New Tools and Services for SIF-ESDR Datasets

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-03-22
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Global map of daily mean Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) for July 2010 at 0.05 degree resolution. The USA's Corn Belt (insert) showed the largest SIF emission during the growing Season (Image Credit: Jiaming Wen 2022).

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Datasets from the Solar Induced Fluorescence Earth Science Data Record (SIF-ESDR) have been integrated into ORNL DAAC subsetting tools, TDS with learning resources available, and Earthdata Cloud.
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