Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers
August 2, 2024
The first-year students’ measurements of a California river revealed new capabilities of NASA’s topography satellite.
The first-year students’ measurements of a California river revealed new capabilities of NASA’s topography satellite.
A new NASA satellite is recording the first global survey of Earth’s water cycle with unprecedented accuracy — and Tamlin Pavelsky is verifying its data from North Carolina to New Zealand.
NASA’s Dec. 15 launch of an eye in the sky to monitor Earth’s water follows 18 years of work by Tamlin Pavelsky, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a global team.