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GLOBE Collaborates with the NISAR Mission
NISAR is a joint NASA-ISRO
(USA and India) mission set to launch this year. The mission will
measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses,
providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise,
and groundwater. These data will support a host of applications, such
as agriculture, coastal land resiliency, ecosystem response and
adaptation, disaster management, and water monitoring. GLOBE is
working closely with NISAR scientists to develop a NISAR bundle,
similar to other GLOBE protocol bundles. It will include a variety of
environmental measurements such as soil moisture, biometry, and
phenology, including flowering trees. The GLOBE community will collect
ground-based data to contribute to the many research applications that
NISAR data will support. If you’d like to learn more about NISAR watch
a recording from a recent GLOBE webinar. Stay tuned for more
details about this collaboration!