NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Carbon Research (VIDEO)

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Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering surprisingly high numbers of trees in semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NLB_M6Z83iE Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13736

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