NSIDC expertise has contributed to the enhancement of Xarray, a popular open-source tool used for data analysis and ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone— 2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch in 2018, this advanced Earth-monitoring mission has been providing ...

美国宇航局的 ICESat-2 达到了一个令人难以置信的里程碑：从轨道发射了 2 万亿次激光发射！自 2018 年以来，这一地球监测奇迹一直在以惊人的精度追踪冰盖、冰川、森林甚至海底。它的激光脉冲专为测量冰而设计，揭示了南极洲范德福德冰川等地的重大变化。由于其激光仍处于最佳状态，这项任务正在通过一次脉冲构建地球变化地貌的庞大而详细的记录。美国宇航局的冰、云和陆地海拔卫星 2 (ICESat-2) ...

The AfriSAR campaign is in its second week of collecting data over different forests of Gabon using airborne radar and laser instruments, UAVSAR and LVIS. While most of the NASA airborne crew are ...

Weather: Smoky and in the 70s F (20s C) all day. Our first day of camp found me waking up on Steph Woodworth’s couch. Steph is the Project Director for Northern Youth Leadership (NYL), a nonprofit ...

“We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” (Elon Musk ...

Lake water level is an important variable to indicate lake hydrological balances and climate change impacts. Benefiting from the launch of the laser altimeters ICESat and ICESat-2, higher ...