A Boreal Forest Awakens

Fieldwork in interior Alaska aimed to identify when evergreen trees resumed growth and started taking up carbon.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Digital camera images are from the PhenoCam Network. Story by Kathryn Hansen based on materials from Fred Huemmrich and Petya Campbell/UMBC.

Published May 27, 2023
Data acquired April 19, 2023

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Photograph

Collection:

Applied Sciences