Amazon Canopy Comes to Life through Laser Data

  • Released Tuesday, June 12, 2018
View full credits

Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have made the first 3D measurements of forest canopies in the region. With this research they hope to shed light on the effects of prolonged drought on forest ecosystems and to provide a potential preview of stresses on rainforests in a warming world.

Complete transcript available.

Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have made the first 3D measurements of forest canopies in the region. With this research they hope to shed light on the effects of prolonged drought on forest ecosystems and to provide a potential preview of stresses on rainforests in a warming world.

For More Information

See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/3d-view-of-amazon-forests-captures-effects-of-el-ni-o-drought

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.

Series

This visualization can be found in the following series: