| Allen Kenitzer Goddard Space Flight Center (Phone: 301-286-2806) Lee Tune |
Sept. 20, 1999 |
RELEASE NO: 99-100
VEGETATION CANOPY LIDAR MEDIA BRIEFING RESCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 21
Due to Hurricane Floyd, NASA and the University of Maryland have rescheduled the Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) mission media briefing from Sept 17 to Sept 21. The briefing will take place at 10 a.m. in LeFrak Hall, room 1124 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
This month, for the first time, a NASA research aircraft will fly over selected U.S. forests using an innovative instrument to determine the amount of vegetation in the forests. This technology will be used aboard the NASA/University of Maryland VCL spacecraft and will create the first global maps of forest vegetation. The maps created by the VCL spacecraft will allow scientists to monitor the health of forests and determine the capacity of forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.