The last decade has experienced a dramatic improvement in the extent and consistency of tree cover and gross deforestation products from optical imagery. These optical-based datasets are capable of tracing forest clearings made for plantations and pastures, but they suffer from cloud cover and may lump mature forest, secondary forest, and plantations into a single…

NISAR is a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Clark University researchers will collaborate with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its other sub-contractors to help guide development of the methods for participatory calibration and validation of the radar-based mapping efforts. Specific tasks will include: (1) developing reproducible Jupyter notebooks…