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GEDI Level 3 Data Highlighted by NASA's Earthdata

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-04-11
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The GEDI instrument onboard the ISS uses three lasers split into eight tracks that fire 242 times per second illuminating a 25-meter footprint of the Earth's surface.

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GEDI Level 3 gridded estimates of canopy height, ground elevation, and laser footprint counts from the instrument's full waveform lidar from the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA's GSFC.

Daymet Version 4 Data Products highlighted by NASA's Earthdata

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A regional view of Daymet V4 daily total precipitation over 2 days during the time period that Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August of 2017.

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Daymet Version 4's improved algorithm and sensor timing and bias corrections result in more accurate and precise data.

ORNL DAAC Tool Provides Updated SMAP NEE Data

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Level 4 SMAP Net Ecosystem Exchange (SPL4CMDL) Global daily 9km Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) mean subset for the Colorado Slate River Crested Butte site as graphed from the Fixed Sites Subsets Tool.

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The ORNL DAAC's Fixed Sites Subsets Tool now provides updated version 5 of the SPL4CMDL carbon product.

Remote Sensing and Invasive Species

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Searching for the term remote sensing and words related to invasive species (invasive, nonnative, exotic, or nonindigenous) in Google Scholar reveals an increasing number of publications each year using these terms.

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A new Earthdata article describes how researchers are using remote sensing to map invasive species.

NASA Earth Observing Data and Tools Aid International Education

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Dr. Don McNeil and his students analyzing data in the classroom. The projected wall image on the left shows the result of a MODIS data subset using the ORNL DAAC's Global Subsets Tool. The projected wall image on the right shows thematic maps of daily land surface temperature increase in North and South America and Antarctica using a laterally rotated Mollweide Earth projection. Image courtesy of Dr. McNeil.

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Dr. Don McNeil and students at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand use NASA Earth observing data to study environmental change.

MODIS-derived Forest Radiation Data for Brazil

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Average daily net radiation for the 8-day timestep, 2000-03-29 to 2000-04-06, in the upper Xingu River Basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, study area.

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Three MODIS products were used to derive daily average land surface net radiation for the forests of the upper Xingu River Basin in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

MODIS Collection 6 Phenology and Other Updates

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Periodic fires near Paradise, California (in 2001, 2008, and 2018) observed from MODIS as recorded in the newly released MCD64A1 product: MODIS/Terra and Aqua Burned Area Monthly L3.

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Several updates are now available for MODIS Land Products, including the addition of the Collection 6 phenology product.