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POT introduced a new project aimed at preventing deforestation in major forests Land continue to grow by leaps and bounds, which is one of the main causes of climate change in the world. With this measure, the space agency aims to avoid a huge amount of CO2 which are emitted into the atmosphere by humans and reduce the 10 million hectares of forests that are lost every year.
The project is named GEDI (Global Dynamic Research System of Ecosystems in Spanish) and consists of the installation of laser beams on board international space station (ISS) to monitor the forests of our planet in real time from space.
Nonetheless POT points out that the project GEDI It also performs another important function in protecting our ecosystem, which is monitoring the health of forests to see how deforestation is affecting levels CO2 in the atmosphere.
In addition to the laser beams of the initiative POT will use satellite data obtained from other projects with similar characteristics, such as the Ecosystem Monitoring System (FARM), which is associated with FAO.
NASA will monitor the forests with its lasers
Since one of the first steps in solving a problem is knowing its context, POT seeks to accomplish the difficult task of observing all of the planet’s forests from a more strategic and privileged position: from space. Satellite imagery will help the agency gain a better understanding of the current deforestation situation in Land.
Laura Duncansonproject participant GEDIcommented the chain BBC that when firing one of the laser beams on board ISS The energy reflected from the trees can be analyzed to map the forests. In this way, much more information can be obtained about the changes taking place in these places, in the height of the trees, as well as in the density of the canopy and its carbon content.
GEDI proposes, humanity responds
However, we must not forget that forests are great reservoirs. carbon as they metabolize this component of atmospheric CO2 for safe storage. Therefore, if trees are cut down, some of the carbon they contain is returned to the environment. atmosphere. The study confirms that 20% of emissions CO2 are the result of deforestation.
With their laser beams and satellites FARMproject GEDI You can get very useful data in order to plan how to respond to this problem. However, this initiative will only provide information, so in the end it will be up to the people and governments of the world how to act to mitigate this situation.
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