FAIRFAX, Va., April 15 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
Konrad Wessels, associate professor of geography and geoinformation science at George Mason University, is part of a NASA-funded team studying how ice levels and ecosystem carbon stock are changing-work that could impact climate resilience planning, disaster management, ocean navigation, and national security.
Wessels is contributing to NASA's Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer mission (EDGE), which will be the world's first satellite system to use imaging laser altimetry to map Earth's surface. Selected after a two-year development and evaluation process, this EDGE mission relies on laser altimetry, a technique that sends pulses of light toward Earth and m...