NASA Teams with U.S. Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees

NASA Teams with U.S. Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees

Stewards of the public lands of the United States, including the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, have been challenged to produce the first ever national inventory of mature and old growth forests. The next phase of the project will be augmented by NASA laser altimetry data from an instrument on the International Space Station. The GEDI instrument can provide detailed information on tree height and forest biomass, not just in the U.S., but all around the globe.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)/Scientific Visualization Studio

Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle): Lead Producer

Sally Younger (KBR Wyle): Lead Writer

Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer

Benjamin Poulter (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Marin Palmer (US Forest Service): Scientist

Neil Pederson (Harvard University): Scientist

Additional video footage courtesy Laura Smith, Harvard University; the US Forest Service; and Pond5.

Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds

Release Date: May 17, 2023

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