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A Haircut for Puerto Rico’s Forests

A research team has found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees surveyed on the island either lost large branches, were snapped in half, or were uprooted by strong winds from Hurricane Maria.


NASA Scientific Visualization Studio images by Alex Kekesi, Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell, and Cindy Starr, using data from the Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager. Story by Ellen Gray, NASA Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 1, 2019
Data acquired 2017 - 2018

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Aircraft Sensors > G-LiHT