Leaf Year: Seeing Plants in Hyperspectral Color
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Researchers have now gathered a complete year of PACE data to tell a story about the health of land vegetation by detecting slight variations in leaf colors.
Previous missions allowed scientists to observe broad changes in chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their green color and also allows them to perform photosynthesis. But PACE now allows scientists to see three different pigments in vegetation: chlorophyll, anthocyanins, and carotenoids.
The combination of these three pigments helps scientists pinpoint even more information about plant health.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS)
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Animator
- Chris Burns (eMITS)
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Visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
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Scientists
- Morgaine McKibben (SSAI)
- Fred Huemmerich (UMBC)
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Interviewees
- Morgaine McKibben (SSAI)
- Fred Huemmerich (UMBC)
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Presenter
- Laine Havens (NASA Interns)
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Project support
- Kathryn Mersmann (NASA/GSFC)
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This page was originally published on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
This page was last updated on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM EDT.