Scott Luthcke presents BOTH GEDI and ICESat2 positioning (because the same impressive team did both NASA Goddard missions!)

It was an honor to be on this panel surrounded by these brilliant women. So happy it wasn’t a manel! @IARPCCollab

Fekety et al. 2015: "Mapping response variables at the landscape level demonstrates that the relationship between field data and LiDAR metrics holds true even though the data were collected in different years." Read: dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2…

Falkowski Another example examining spatial transferability of stem density and basal area models using 6 forest units (build model on 5, assess on hold out unit). Fekety et al. (2018) #CFSEFI #forestinventory Read: doi.org/10.1080/070389…

Health-care costs soar so high, it’s like a tax, economists say - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…

Landsat time series data show an increase in woodland cover and biomass across the Great Basin from 2000-2016 (forest area increase by 0.46% per year and a total biomass increase of 9.86 Tg due to infilling). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… NASA CMS ARCHIVED - NASA Landsat

Here you can see the Space Shuttle Discovery, The Spaceborne Imaging RADAR (used for the ShuttleRadar Topography Mission), and a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) which are used for Landsat data relay, among other things. Earth Observation (EO) Love! NASA Earth

Very excited to announce that first GEDI data products are now online! Available via LPDAAC: e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/ or Earth Data Search: search.earthdata.nasa.gov NASA Earth NASA Goddard Department of Geographical Sciences UMD Research

Earth in 3D: The first public release of #data from NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (#GEDI) mission on the space station provide measurements of Earth's surface in unprecedented detail! go.nasa.gov/2G7grGe Access new data at LP DAAC: bit.ly/38wxyNJ

The feeling you get when you successfully binge The Mandolorian in under 4 days, easily in time to end your free trial of Disney+ before getting charged.

My unicorn paper is out! After 7 years of data synthesis, new conceptualization, and building numerical models, we now have the first estimate of thermokarst (abrupt thaw) carbon emissions. This hotspot process affects small areas but packs a big C punch. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Return of the Lost GEDI! Looking for NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data over your study area? The new #GEDI Finder web service at the #LPDAAC allows users to submit a bounding box+ returns all GEDI files intersecting that region. bit.ly/31EvaT8

LandTrendr analysis demonstrates that reductions in Piñyon-Juniper cover from active management and wildfire do not outpace estimates of Piñyon-Juniper cover increases due to encroachment across the Sage Grouse range. Reinhardt et al. 2020 doi.org/10.1016/j.rama…

New radiation budget instrument selected. Here’s to long term climate data records! nasa.gov/press-release/…

To celebrate Star Wars Day, here’s a peak at the latest @NASA_Earth #GEDI mission data – vegetation height, cover, and elevation. Want to know more? Visit gedi.umd.edu. May the force and the forest be with you!