10 minutes to launch GEDI

Go GEDI! #launchday #GEDI #Maytheforestbewithyou IBES Brown EEOB Brown University GEDI

Liftoff!!!!

A very happy GEDI science team after a successful launch! #MayTheForestBeWithYou ⁦NASA⁩ ⁦NASA Goddard⁩

In the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft after separation from the second stage earlier today. #GEDI lasers on the right. #Maytheforestbewithyou GEDI IBES Brown University Brown EEOB

Major step. Next is spectroscopy for biodiversity. Pair LiDAR & spectroscopy with everywhere-everyday @planetlabs satellites, and we have forests & coral reefs covered worldwide. Space laser will map Earth’s forests in 3D: sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/s…

A beautiful shot from last night - removal of the ⁦SpaceX⁩ dragon trunk for installation on the ⁦International Space Station⁩ JEM-EF

Really happy to see this new paper out in Ecology Letters by @kc_cushman.

Great write-up by @DrShepherd2013 in Forbes on #GEDI

GEDI has finished its on-orbit check-out!! This marks the beginning of our two-year science data collection period. Major kudos to the sensor development team NASA Goddard for all the hard work to get us to this point. NASA Earth Department of Geographical Sciences

New paper on the state of drone lidar in support of mission science. link.springer.com/article/10.100… GEDI

Check out this session at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco later this year: Active remote sensing of 3D structure for ecosystem and surface-topography studies agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/preli…. Initial results from GEDI and ICESat-2 will be presented.

New paper makes the case for remote sensing of individual plants. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

See recorded GEDI data at #AGU2019 agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meeti…

I’m very happy to be helping four former #BrownUniversity undergraduates bring spectral imaging to scale in global agriculture. forbes.com/sites/frederic…

Happy to announce a successful 18M series A funding round with Perennial to bring carbon offset markets to scale. This is what it looks like when Brown University undergraduates change the world.