I'm a little late on this (thanks to Eric Desfonds of Excelitas for the reminder this morning), but GEDI launched on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. It's being integrated on the International Space Station as I type these words.
Jim Pontius, the Goddard Space Flight Center's GEDI program manager, was kind enough…
A lidar image of the Borrego Fault in Baja California, Mexico, courtesy of the University of California, Davis
Eva Botkin-Kowacki's excellent big-picture story on lidar is out today in the Christian Science Monitor. In her reporting, she came across "The Laser That's Changing the World" and, from there, me.
It's an interesting thing, as a journalist, to…