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CATEGORIES:Energy and Environment Group\, Department of CST
SUMMARY:Forest biomass mapping and monitoring with NASA Li
 dars - Laura Innice Duncanson. University of Maryl
 and
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231117T130000
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UID:TALK204433AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/204433
DESCRIPTION:NASA currently has two active satellite lidar miss
 ions in orbit that are collecting 3D Earth surface
  structure data\, GEDI and ICESat-2. The GEDI miss
 ion was launched in 2018 and has been collecting n
 ear-global forest height and structure measurement
 s with a primary science goal of constraining the 
 global carbon cycle. GEDI’s biomass products use s
 imple empirical models to translate lidar waveform
 s into estimates of forest aboveground biomass (ca
 rbon). GEDI’s products cover the full tropical and
  temperate forests\, and ICESat-2 data has been re
 cently used to extend this to fill the northern bo
 real data gap for circa 2020 global coverage. Simi
 lar statistical techniques have been used for ICES
 at-2 boreal biomass mapping. This talk will presen
 t an overview of current products\, their limitati
 ons\, and next steps toward product improvement an
 d change monitoring with a time series of satellit
 e lidar datasets. \n\nDr. Duncanson is an assistan
 t professor at the University of Maryland\, colleg
 e park. She uses lidar data to understand and moni
 tor forest carbon dynamics at local to global scal
 es. She co-leads the development of empirical biom
 ass models for NASA missions (GEDI and ICESat-2)\,
  and is involved in several international efforts 
 aimed at bringing consistency and transparency to 
 the field of remote sensing of forest biomass.
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://
 cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZw
 Rm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&amp\;from=addon 
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