Technology is absolutely critical to managing our planet. Technology can change our understanding of nature. They created device which is called CAO integrating high sensitivity imaging spectrometer (hyperspectral) to measure chemical composition of plants and high powered lasers (LiDAR) to descrive vertical profile of forest structure. They can manage the entire planet with technologies. The real power of the CAO is its ability to capture the actual building blocks of ecosystems. They’ve been using the technology to explore and to actually put out the first carbon geographies in high resolution in faraway places like the Amazon Basin and not-so-faraway places like the United States and Central America. What’s good is that the technology they’ve developed and they’re working with in South Africa is allowing them to map every single tree . Carbon mapping has transformed conservation and resource policy development. It’s really advancing our ability to save forests and to curb climate change. Briefly, this is awesome device for planet .
CAO datasets showing three dimensional structure of vegetations and buildings
CAO datasets showing different tree species within forests structure
