# From Space to Soil- How NASA Sees Forests (SVS14854 - 5 25 GEDI ICESAT SOCIAL FC1)

Music: "Overview Effect," Universal Production Music. NASA uses satellite lidar technology to study Earth’s forests, key carbon sinks. The GEDI mission maps forest height and biomass from the ISS, while ICESat-2 fills polar data gaps. Together, they enable a first-of-its-kind global biomass map, guiding smarter forest conservation and carbon tracking.Find out more about NASA’s Earth Sciences Division at https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlThis video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlComplete transcript available.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - eMITS/Emme Watkins, eMITS/Ryan Fitzgibbons, eMITS/Aaron E. Lepsch, University of Maryland College Park/Laura…
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:From_Space_to_Soil-_How_NASA_Sees_Forests_(SVS14854_-_5_25_GEDI_ICESAT_SOCIAL_FC1).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - eMITS/Emme Watkins, eMITS/Ryan Fitzgibbons, eMITS/Aaron E. Lepsch, University of Maryland College Park/Laura Duncanson, University of Texas at Austin/Amy Neuenschwander, USRA/Kel Elkins,…
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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