Return of the GEDI: Space Station Instrument Returns to Forest Monitoring That’s no moon, that’s a space station! The return of NASA’s GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) is underway, as the agency’s very own “lightsaber” will soon be back to measuring forests in three dimensions after it was reinstalled on the International Space Station April 22. Measuring distances with similar principles as sonar, a lidar instrument uses light …
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