August 2025
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Publications

Lu, M., Popescu, S., Malambo, L., Hudak, A., Lister, A. 2025. Mapping aboveground biomass in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California with ICESat-2, GEDI and ancillary data. Forest Ecology and Management. 595, 123040. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123040

Associated Projects:
  • Hudak (CMS 2022) (CCE, CMS, NACP, TE)
 

Brasika, I. B. M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., O'Sullivan, M., Duran-Rojas, M. C., Rosan, T. M., Goldewijk, K. K., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Chini, L. P., Hurtt, G. C. 2025. Uncertainties in carbon emissions from land use and land cover change in Indonesia. Biogeosciences. 22(14), 3547-3561. DOI: 10.5194/bg-22-3547-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Hurtt (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Pandey, S., Chevallier, F., Rodenbeck, C., Byrne, B., Chatterjee, A., Liu, J., Frankenberg, C. 2025. Reduction in Earth's carbon budget imbalance. Nature Communications. 16(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61588-2

Associated Projects:
  • Chatterjee (CMS 2018) (CCE, CMS, NACP)
 

Estrada, L. A., Varon, D. J., Sulprizio, M., Nesser, H., Chen, Z., Balasus, N., Hancock, S. E., He, M., East, J. D., Mooring, T. A., Oort Alonso, A., Maasakkers, J. D., Aben, I., Baray, S., Bowman, K. W., Worden, J. R., Cardoso-Saldana, F. J., Reidy, E., Jacob, D. J. 2025. Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) 2.0: an improved research and stakeholder tool for monitoring total methane emissions with high resolution worldwide using TROPOMI satellite observations. Geoscientific Model Development. 18(11), 3311-3330. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-3311-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Jacob (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Chen, Z., Lin, H., Balasus, N., Hardy, A., East, J. D., Zhang, Y., Runkle, B. R. K., Hancock, S. E., Taylor, C. A., Du, X., Sander, B. O., Jacob, D. J. 2025. Global Rice Paddy Inventory (GRPI): A High-Resolution Inventory of Methane Emissions From Rice Agriculture Based on Landsat Satellite Inundation Data. Earth's Future. 13(4). DOI: 10.1029/2024EF005479

Associated Projects:
  • Jacob (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Penn, E., Jacob, D. J., Chen, Z., East, J. D., Sulprizio, M. P., Bruhwiler, L., Maasakkers, J. D., Nesser, H., Qu, Z., Zhang, Y., Worden, J. 2025. What can we learn about tropospheric OH from satellite observations of methane? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 25(5), 2947-2965. DOI: 10.5194/acp-25-2947-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Jacob (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Qi, W., Armston, J., Choi, C., Stovall, A., Saarela, S., Pardini, M., Fatoyinbo, L., Papathanassiou, K., Pascual, A., Dubayah, R. 2025. Mapping large-scale pantropical forest canopy height by integrating GEDI lidar and TanDEM-X InSAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318, 114534. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114534

Associated Projects:
  • Dubayah (CMS 2022) (CCE, CMS, TE)
 

Zhu, Q., Jacob, D. J., Yuan, K., Li, F., Runkle, B. R. K., Chen, M., Bloom, A. A., Poulter, B., East, J. D., Riley, W. J., McNicol, G., Worden, J., Frankenberg, C., Halabisky, M. 2025. Advancements and opportunities to improve bottom-up estimates of global wetland methane emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2), 023001. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adad02

Associated Projects:
  • Jacob (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Balasus, N., Jacob, D. J., Maxemin, G., Jenks, C., Nesser, H., Maasakkers, J. D., Cusworth, D. H., Scarpelli, T. R., Varon, D. J., Wang, X. 2025. Satellite monitoring of annual US landfill methane emissions and trends. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2), 024007. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ada2b1

Associated Projects:
  • Jacob (CMS 2023) (CCE, CMS)
 

Qi W, Armston J, Choi C, Stovall A, Saarela S, Pardini M, Fatoyinbo L, Papathanassiou K, Pascual A, Dubayah R. (2024). Mapping large-scale pantropical forest canopy height by integrating GEDI lidar and TanDEM-X InSAR data. AGU Fall Meeting Poster No. 1586, id. B13E-1586.

Associated Projects:
   - Dubayah (CMS 2022) CCE, CMS, TE
 

Armston, J. D., Dubayah, R., Qi, W., Urbazaev, M., May, P., & Saarela, S. (2023, December). On the synergy of the NASA GEDI and NASA/ISRO NISAR missions for monitoring ecosystem structure and biomass. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, No. 889, pp. GC11F-0889). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AGUFMGC11F0889A.

Associated Projects:
   - Dubayah (CMS 2022) CCE, CMS, TE
 

Choi, C., Cazcarra-Bes, V., Guliaev, R., Pardini, M., Papathanassiou, K. P., Qi, W., Armston, J., Dubayah, R. O. 2023. Large-Scale Forest Height Mapping by Combining TanDEM-X and GEDI Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16, 2374-2385. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3244866

Associated Projects:
  • Dubayah (CMS 2022) (CCE, CMS, TE)
 

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Funding Opportunities

NASA: User-Centered Applications with Large Earth Foundation Models - ROSES 2025 A.9
NOI: November 4, 2025
Due: December 9, 2025

 

NASA: Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science - ROSES 2025 A.4
Due: Rolling submissions accepted

 

NASA: INNOVATE - ROSES 2025 A.10
Due: Rolling submissions accepted

 
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