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Amazon rainforest height map
The two photonics-based Earth-observing instruments will help give scientists a better understanding of how forests and ecosystems are being affected by changes in climate and land use. This image of the Amazon rainforest is from a 2010 global map of the height of the world’s forests, based on multiple satellite datasets. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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