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Video•October 27, 2010

How Do We Know: Proof in the Pixels

Published: October 27th, 2010

Program Summary

The Amazon Rainforest covers about 1.4 billion acres of land in parts of nine different countries. Keeping an accurate and current measurement of the biomass across that much territory is challenging, but critical. Dr. Heidi Cullen talks to a fellow scientist who explains how the mapping is done, and why it’s so important.