Sentences with phrase «map global vegetation»

Matt Ridley recently pointed out that a NASA scientist has developed a «Normalized Difference Vegetation Index» that uses satellite data to «map global vegetation changes.»

Around the same time, a NASA scientist named Compton Tucker found that he could map global vegetation changes by calculating a «Normalized Difference Vegetation Index» (NDVI) from the data produced by a satellite sensor.

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You can see the effects of global warming in a new high - resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land - use practices in Peru's Amazon.

By integrating satellite mapping, airborne - laser technology, and ground - based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high - resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land - use practices.