A May 2017 study published in Nature Geoscience
used global satellite data and a statistical technique to show that as much as 30 percent of the variability in climate and weather patterns can be attributed to plants.
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Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009.
Using
global satellite data and complex calculations, they were able — for the first time — to develop a proxy measurement for one of the most vexing questions in atmospheric science: how tiny particles in the atmosphere affect the amount of water in and the size of clouds.
This exercise aims at identifying the best pre-processing and classification algorithms for the production of
a global satellite data - based land cover product.