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Scientists Show How Forests Measure Up

A new map shows the height of Earth’s forests, from stubby saplings to timbers towering more than 50 meters tall, across the entire land surface.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Lang, N. et al. (2022). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 13, 2022
Data acquired 2020

Sources:
GEDI
Model
Sentinel-2