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Life on Earth The Earth's landscapes and oceans are teeming with life—millions of species. Of particular interest to remote sensing scientists are those land- and marine-based plants that photosynthesize because they draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Using satellite and surface-based measurements, scientists seek to better understand our world's carbon cycle. Worldwide, what are the major "sources and sinks" of carbon?
 
Event Monitoring
·Drought and Vegetation
 

Reference
·Tropical Deforestation
·Aura
·Watching our Ozone Weather
·Chemistry in the Sunlight
·ICESat Factsheet
·CALIPSO
·Aqua
·NOAA
·Overview of the Earth Science Enterprise
·The Ozone We Breathe
·Global Warming Fact Sheet
·Ultraviolet Radiation
·Measuring Vegetation
·Drought
·The Water Cycle
·Land Cover Classification
·What are phytoplankton? Fact Sheet
·What is a Coccolithophore? Fact Sheet
 
Features
·Amazon Fires on the Rise
·Ancient Forest to Modern City
·Buzzing about Climate Change
·Greenland's Ice Island Alarm
·The Amazon's Seasonal Secret
·Remote River Reconnaissance
·Urban Rain
·Beating the Heat in the World's Big Cities
·Defying Dry
·Winds Connect Snow to Sea
·Aiding Afghanistan
·Looking for Lawns
·Drought and Deluge Change Chesapeake Bay Biology
·The Rising Cost of Natural Hazards
·Stealing Rain from the Rainforest
·Polar Wind Data Blow New Life Into Forecasts
·New Tools for Conservation
·Mayan Mysteries (DAAC Study)
·Uncovering Chameleons
·From Forest to Field
·Humans and Climate Destroy Reef Ecosystem
·Life in Icy Waters (DAAC Study)
·Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (DAAC Study)
·Drought Lowers Lake Mead
·Watching the World Go By
·Just Add Water
·The Incredible Glowing Algae (DAAC Study)
·Global Garden Gets Greener
·Escape from the Amazon
·From Space to the Outback
·Flame & Flood (DAAC Study)
·The Human Footprint (DAAC Study)
·Introduction to the LBA
·Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation
·Locust!
·Rain Helps Carbon Sink
·The Migrating Boreal Forest
·Fish Kill in the Gulf of Oman
·Showdown in the Rio Grande
·Urbanization's Aftermath
·Hunting Dangerous Algae from Space (DAAC Study)
·Fiery Temperament (DAAC Study)
·Seeing Leaves in a New Light
·Domes of Destruction (DAAC Study)
·Tais that Bind (DAAC Study)
·Hantavirus Risk Maps (DAAC Study)
·Power to the People
·Measure for Measure (DAAC Study)
·Life on the Brink (DAAC Study)
·Location, Location, Location (DAAC Study)
·Watching Plants Dance to the Rhythms of the Ocean
·When the Dust Settles (DAAC Study)
·Amazing Atolls of the Maldives
·Mapping the Decline of Coral Reefs
·Where Frogs Live (DAAC Study)
·Precision Farming
·New Tools for Diplomacy (DAAC Study)
·Reaping What We Sow
·Bright Lights, Big City
·Adapting to Climate Change
·Dry Times in North America
·The Dirt on Carbon (DAAC Study)
·Polynyas, CO2, and Diatoms in the Southern Ocean (DAAC Study)
·Perspective on Plants (DAAC Study)
·Illuminating Photosynthesis in the Arabian Sea (DAAC Study)
·Grasslands Initiative (DAAC Study)
·Hurricane Floyd
·Upper Crust (DAAC Study)
·Mapping Malaria
·Why EOS Matters
·Fish in the Trees (DAAC Study)
·Spotting the Spotted Owl
·Mystery of the Missing Carbon
·Changing Currents in the Bering Sea
 
Experiments
·Global Dataset Comparison Activities
·Mission: Biomes
 
 
Featured Life on Earth Images
More Life on Earth Images

Phytoplankton Bloom in North Sea off Scotland
Phytoplankton Bloom in North Sea off Scotland

William Smith's Geological Map of England
William Smith's Geological Map of England

Monsoon Spurs Indian Green-up
Monsoon Spurs Indian Green-up

   
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