NASA has created a global snapshot of the world’s forests using satellites and LIDAR, a laser technology that measures the height of forest canopy using pulses of light. This map took seven ...

Height map of world's forests created WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- The first-ever complete world map detailing the height of the Earth's forests has been produced using satellite data, scientists say.

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Using satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the ...

The map depicts average height over 5 square kilometers (1.9 square miles) regions), not the maximum heights that any one tree or small patch of trees might attain.

A seamount nearly twice the height of the world’s tallest building has been discovered on the ocean floor near Guatemala — and serves as a biodiversity hot spot.

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The forest-height map could aid the ongoing effort to estimate the amount of carbon tied up in Earth’s forests and to explain what sops up 2 billion tonnes of “missing” carbon each year. Humans ...

This map shows the distribution of the world's height, according to research published in eLife. ... to estimate height for people from all over the world born between 1896 to 1996.

The resulting map, which will be published in Geophysical Research Letters, gives the tree height of all of the world’s forests. “As these maps improve, they are going to give us our first ...

Using NASA satellite data, scientists led by Michael Lefsky at Colorado State University have produced a map that details the height of the world’s forests. Although there are other local- and ...