Mainebiz reports on NASA carbon mapping project at UMaine

Mainebiz picked up a University of Maine news release highlighting the use of lasers to map carbon deposits from space. Daniel Hayes, director of the Wheatland Geospatial Laboratory, and Aaron Weiskittel, director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, will partner with researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota to analyze data gathered on the international space station as part of NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) science team.