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Detecting Invisible Plant Stress

A new tool helped detect water-stressed vegetation near some 2019 Amazon rainforest fires.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and evaporative stress data from the ECOSTRESS team. Story by Arielle Samuelson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory.

Published November 8, 2019
Data acquired August 19 - 26, 2019

Sources:
ISS > ECOSTRESS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Amazon Deforestation