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Jason-3 satellite produces its first global sea surface height map

Datacollected by the Jason-3 satellite, which was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in January this year, has been used to create theprobe's very first complete science map of global sea surface ...
SpaceNews

First Map Of Global Forest Heights Created From NASA Data

WASHINGTON — Scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map of the height of the world’s forests by combining data from three NASA satellites. The map will help scientists build an inventory of how ...
Mongabay

Now on Google Earth: NASA updates global forest height map

Forest height in Indonesia and surrounding countries. NASA researchers have released a Google Earth version of a map showing the height of the world’s forests. The map was first published in 2010 by ...
Mongabay

First-of-its-kind mapping technique sheds new light on tropical forests

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts have developed vegetation height maps for the entire tropics at very fine spatial ...
Science Daily

First-of-its-kind map details the height of the globe's forests

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 new ...
The New York Times

The U.S. Is Getting Shorter, as Mapmakers Race to Keep Up

Scientists are hard at work recalibrating where and how the nation physically sits on the planet. It’s not shrinkage — it’s “height modernization.” Topographic surveying by members of the National ...