Lifehacker

Is There an Easy Way to Measure the Height of a Tree?

Trees are tall. Humans, relatively speaking, are not. And we're not the most agile climbers in the animal kingdom, either. But we are crafty, and we can out-think even the most wizened redwood. But ...
Business Recorder

NASA wants people to point their phones at trees to help measure its height

Many people upload pictures of nature, trees in particular, on social media. NASA is now asking users to do that more for the sake of science to help measure trees’ height. NASA has ICESat-2 satellite ...
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Decoding Shenzhen's tree growth seasons using smart remote sensing

In a leap for urban ecology, researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge method to dynamically estimate seasonal tree heights in Shenzhen. By seamlessly integrating multi-source remote sensing data with ...
The Verge

Why NASA wants you to point your smartphone at trees

NASA would like you to take a picture of a tree, please. The space agency’s ICESat-2 satellite estimates the height of trees from space, and NASA has created a new tool for citizen scientists that can ...
Android

This Is Not A Drill: NASA Needs Your Smartphone To – Measure Trees

NASA is calling on users of its GLOBE Observer app to use their smartphone camera as a method to help verify satellite data measuring the height of trees. The update to its app, adding the feature, ...