S13E6: Forest Carbon Monitoring with Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo

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In the last episode of Season 13, we talk to Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo about SAR, LiDAR, passive multispectral data, mangroves, biomass estimation, carbon stocks, payment ecosystem services, science communication & much more. Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, is a NASA scientist!! She is Research Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center based in Maryland, USA, where she studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure with multi-source remote sensing. Dr. Fatoyinbo has a Doctorate in Environmental sciences from University of Virginia, with a focus on Forest Ecology and Remote Sensing of Mangrove Wetlands. She serves on the GEDI and ICESat-2 Mission Science Teams and is Principal investigator on NASA Earth Science research.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EarthToLola
Research: https://mangrovescience.org/
NASA Directory Page: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/lola.fatoyinbo

Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Ishveena Singh featured on S13E6: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/esa-biomass-maps-climate-change/

Stay tuned for a bonus episode this summer to round out Season 13 of Scene From Above recapping the season and prospecting what comes next. And as always, thanks for listening!

Shownotes:

Dr. Fatoyinbo’s 2011 Presidential Early Career Award: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2012/12-064.html
Minecraft Mangrove Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkR6xX_v0pw
Mangrove Science Data Portal: https://mangrovescience.org/data-portal-2/
Global Mangrove Dataset: https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1665
NASA Biodiversity: https://cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/
- Dr. Sassan Saatchi: https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/saatchi/
- Dr. Marc Simard twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLovesEarth
- Dr. Woody Turner: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/about/our-team/woody-turner

S13E6 News Links:

A new web-based mapping application: Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer:
- https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/imagery/global-land-cover-revealed/?adusf=twitter&aduc=esri_conserv&adut=341c8636-83a0-4da0-859d-54ffafe29c71
ESA's wind mission helps to investigate the nature of volcanic plumes:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27021-0#Abs1
Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly:
- https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/news/recent-landsat-9-tirs-anomaly-pauses-processing-new-landsat-9-data
ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024:
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2023/02/24/esa-biomass-satellite-set-to-map-earths-essential-old-growth-forests/amp/

News Correspondent:

Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_
Subscribe to Rafaela’s Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/

Hosts:

Dr. Gopika Suresh: https://twitter.com/Go__pika
Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes
Dr. Morgan Crowley: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley

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