NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Carbon Research

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering surprisingly high numbers of trees in semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land.

Music credit: "Fence Trespassing" from Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
LK Ward (USRA): Lead Producer
Jessica Merzdorf (Telophase): Lead Writer
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Visualizer
Compton Tucker (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support