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Penetrating Tree Cover to See the Forest Floor

JPL’s airborne radar instrument opens up a view of tropical wetlands and forest around the Napo River.


Radar image by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. Landsat image created by Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published April 25, 2013
Data acquired March 17, 2013

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors > UAVSAR
Landsat 7 > ETM+