NASA-ISRO radar mission to provide dynamic view of forests, wetlands

NISAR, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change, said a news release.

Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into two types of ecosystems – forests and wetlands – vital to naturally regulating the greenhouses gases in the atmosphere that are driving global climate change.