ESA Portal - Satellite portrait of global plant growth will aid climate research

Media Centre

Press Releases ESA Television Launch Media Corner Exhibitions

Services

Calendar Publications Frequently asked questions ESA-sponsored Conferences Help Site Credits Portal terms of use Comments Subscribe

Satellite portrait of global plant growth will aid climate research

27 January 2006

Back to article

Download:

HI-RES GIF (Size: 1050 kb)

This animation based on GLOBCARBON data shows changes in worldwide leaf area index (LAI) from 1999 to the end of 2002.

Credits: ESA

Back to article

Download:

HI-RES JPG (Size: 876 kb)

ESA's ten-instrument Envisat environmental satellite has been observing the Earth for more than three years. Picture by EADS Astrium.

Credits: EADS Astrium

Researchers seeking to follow the carbon

Back to article

Download:

HI-RES GIF (Size: 625 kb)

This animation based on GLOBCARBON data products shows worldwide burnt area estimates (BAE) from 1999 to 2002.

Credits: ESA

Back to article

Forest fires pump large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and require better characterisation within carbon cycle models.