The PACE mission just
released one
full year of
global changes in
land vegetation.
PACE is hyperspectral,
meaning it can detect
lots of colors.
Not just pigment in plankton,
but in plants,
land or sea
across the globe.
Well,
yew asked fir it,
back by poplar demand,
it's NASA Puns:
Tree Edition.
Let me branch out
and ash you something:
If you wood study
all the plants on Earth,
how would you do it?
Now, before you go and
birches your gear,
I've got something to tell you:
PACE beech you to it.
PACE walnut be outdone
when it comes to plant pigments.
Pigments are substances
in leaves
that absorb and reflect
light to
power photosynthesis.
You may already know
the green pigment
chlorophyll.
Look,
olive chlorophyll,
and satellites in the past
were great at detecting
chlorophyll in leaves,
which told us things
about plants’ productivity,
but the color spectrum
chestnut larch
enough to
cedar changes
due to things like
bugs and drought.
[hill barreling sounds]
So
PACE has
spruced up our remote
sensing toolkit,
and is going to dig deeper
into the root
of the problem.
As we collect more info
over time,
PACE maple
more foresters and
farmers in to look at
data in their region.
Vegetation investigation
willow a lot to PACE.
I can hardly
cypress my excitement.
Oak-ay,
if you're
pining for more,
join me next time.
Unless you're
sycamore puns.
Now I know what you're thinking.
What's a satellite
with an ocean color instrument
doing looking at land?
Unless you're sycamore puns, that is.