Human activities have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50% since the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Carbon Dioxide?The amount of methane in our atmosphere has more than doubled since the pre-industrial era.
What is Methane?
View of snow cover in the Chilean Andes from EMIT
Measure snow reflectivity, allowing the assessment of snow albedo level.
Monitor changes in snow cover extent over time.
Fundamental for understanding trends in snow melt and its impact on the hydrological cycle.
Understand how changes in snow cover and melting can affect the release of these gases.
Human activities have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50% since the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Carbon Dioxide?The amount of methane in our atmosphere has more than doubled since the pre-industrial era.
What is Methane?
Depending on the season and crop management, this data can provide information on crop types, vegetation health and diseases, crop residue composition, and soil mineralogy.
Crop health and agricultural production are essential for maintaining human health and societies.
Forest lands, both in the western US and worldwide, face an increasing risk of mortality due to droughts, beetle outbreaks, and forest fires.
EMIT data can be used after a forest fire to assess recovery and monitor current risks.
EMIT data could be used to monitor forest health.
Albedo is the fraction of light reflected by a surface. The albedo of the Earth's surface (atmosphere, ocean, land surfaces) determines how much incoming solar energy, or light, is immediately reflected back into space. This can have an impact on climate.
Depending on the season and crop management, this data can provide information on crop types, vegetation health and diseases, crop residue composition, and soil mineralogy.
Crop health and agricultural production are essential for maintaining human health and societies.