Senior Research Scientist JPL Pasadena, California, United States
Since the Blue Marble photo from space , the vantage point of space has revealed our living plant. Remote sensing reveals the breathing of the planet, growth and recession of deserts, productivity of ecosystems, and the "green wave", of seasonal phenology as well as natural biomes and land cover change. New remote sensors expand now quantify 3-D structure from radar and lidar, photosynthesis and transpiration from imagers and the functional diversity of land plants and phytoplankton from spectrometers. Our living planet is characterized by the grand biogeochemical cycles and the diversity of life, dimensions of which we can now observe.
