Satellites Help Map Biodiversity, and Conservation Hotspots, of the Amazon (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Satellites Help Map Biodiversity, and Conservation Hotspots, of the Amazon

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The CAO laser-guided imaging spectrometer data are fully three-dimensional, providing the structure and architecture of the forest, while simultaneously capturing up to 23 chemical properties of the canopy foliage. These colors indicate the diversity of canopy traits among coexisting tree species in the same hectare. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.P. Asner at Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy to map forest trait diversity and guide conservation."

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Greg Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science

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