Special moment watching the ALOS4 launch with colleagues from JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) at a #CEOS biomass meeting in Cambodia! Congratulations JAXA and all involved! Wonderful for the international community.

New work out led by Miro Demol and Sylvera colleagues showing Mozambican miombo woodlands contain 1.5 - 2.2 x more C than previously thought. Study uses new multiscale approach w census, terrestrial, UAV and 50 kha airborne lidar. OA nature.com/articles/s4324…

Our boreal biomass modeling paper is now online! Complementing GEDI L4A models to fill in the north! Amy Neuenschwander NASA_ABoVE ICESat-2 Vegetation Applications

Our new paper in PNAS PNASNews dives deep into the #Amazon’s #carbon balance and the surprising impacts of #deforestation, logging, fires, windthrows and other forest disturbances, mapped using repeated airborne #lidar scanning. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congratulations to PhD student Paromita basak 👏👏👏 As NASA #FINESST, she'll use her $150K grant to identify key areas in Southeast Asia that offer significant carbon storage and biodiversity benefits, w/ advisor Laura Duncanson +GEDI go.umd.edu/finesst-2024

2024 NASA CMS Science Team Meeting & Applications Workshop, by the numbers: 132 participants, including 53 early career and 28 stakeholders, 49 project reports, 8 breakouts, 5 working groups, 4 panels, 1 keynote. NASA Earth #NASA_Carbon Department of Geographical Sciences UMD Research

So fun seeing GEDI on the big screen at the Natural History Museum in DC!

Collaborating with global experts, @Gedi_knights @nehajo88 + others have created a new satellite-based system to estimate forest carbon, aligned with IPCC guidelines for climate reporting. 🌳📊 go.umd.edu/forest-assessm… #ForestCarbon #ClimateData

Holiday lab social to celebrate the my wonderful students and colleagues, and all the powerful work they are doing using satellite lidar to address critical data and knowledge gaps in forest carbon. Very grateful for this talented group!

global mangrove height map in a 12m resolution with rmse of 2.4m. GEDI MangroveWatch Global Mangrove Alliance Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo Atticus Stovall nature.com/articles/s4159…

📩 All GEDI L4A post-storage datasets are now available on NASAEarthdata via the Oak Ridge Lab DAAC! With this release, all #GEDI footprint level datasets from Level 1 to Level 4 are publicly available up until mission week 311 (except L4C WSCI). search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granule…

✅ Launch ✅ Separation ✅ Contact ESA Earth Observation's Biomass is now in space and will begin its mission to further our knowledge of the world’s forests and their role in the carbon cycle. 🛰️🌳 Read more 👉 gov.uk/government/new…

Better together 🤝 NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite and GEDI instrument on the International Space Station work together to give us the most complete view yet of Earth’s forests! They each map forests in 3D, helping scientists understand the carbon stored within our forests.

At #IGARSS2025? I will be presenting the status of #GEDI biomass models on Friday morning (8:30 am! Bright and early!) - come say hi! 🌲🛰️🌳🌎 GEDI

A big step for NISAR 👏