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ESIP 2024
We will be at ESIP in July 2024! Come say hi. The MAAP Team has organized a session on Cross-Platform Interoperability for Scalable Computing in Open Science Analysis and Algorithm Development. Thursday July 25, 2024 8:30am – 10:00am EDT https://2024julyesipmeeting.sched.com/event/1eVM0/mt-pilot-cross-platform-interoperability-for-scalable-computing-in-open-science-analysis-and-algorithm-development
Towards global spaceborne lidar biomass: Developing and applying boreal forest biomass models for ICESat-2 laser altimetry data
Space-based laser altimetry has revolutionized our capacity to characterize terrestrial ecosystems through the direct observation of vegetation structure and the terrain beneath it. Data from NASA’s ICESat-2 mission provide the first comprehensive look at canopy structure for boreal forests from space-based lidar. The objective of this research was to create ICESat-2 aboveground biomass density (AGBD)…
MAAP version 4.0.0 Release
MAAP v4.0.0 has been released. It is a major new release with some breaking changes. Some highlights include: The “Basic Stable” workspace stack has been renamed to “Python (default)”. The associated default “vanilla” conda environment has been renamed to “python”. JupyterLab has been updated to v4. Added all packages from the previous vanilla workspace (now…
Large-Scale Canopy Height Mapping Using C-band InSAR Coherence and GEDI LiDAR Data
Dry forests and savannas have highly heterogeneous horizontal and vertical structure of woody vegetation and high temporal variability in moisture and phenology. This presents distinct challenges to SAR-based approaches to mapping canopy-height compared to tropical and temperate forests. Dense time-series of C-band (Sentinel-1A/1B) and, in future, L-band (NASA/ISRO NISAR) provide a pathway to reduce the…
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Advancing Data Fusion and Research Collaboration for Global Science Initiatives
Sujen Shah will present a poster highlighting several science applications of the MAAP Platform at AGU 2023. In this presentation, we will delve into the remarkable ways in which various teams have embraced and integrated the MAAP platform, yielding significant achievements. One such success story is the SISTER SBG Pathfinder project, which has seamlessly incorporated…
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Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Biomass Harmonization
Biomass Harmonization is a coordinated effort of scientists to release forest-carbon estimates obtained with space data in a comparable manner. This helps identify underlying assumptions, definitions and uncertainty-estimation frameworks (Ref 1). By collaborating with scientists and policy-makers in various countries, this effort also aims to align the carbon estimates with policy guidelines, which will ease…
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