Daryl Yang: Remoting in to take the measure of at-risk ecosystems
September 17, 2024
September 17, 2024
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release:
The goal is to better understand how Arctic ecosystems are changing as icy soil layers called permafrost melt, the land subsides, vegetation transforms and carbon long locked away in soils is emitted to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. Drones equipped with multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal and light detecting and ranging, or LiDAR, ins . . .
The goal is to better understand how Arctic ecosystems are changing as icy soil layers called permafrost melt, the land subsides, vegetation transforms and carbon long locked away in soils is emitted to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. Drones equipped with multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal and light detecting and ranging, or LiDAR, ins . . .