The Carnegie Airborne Observatory - "a mix of hi-tech mapping instrumentation and aviation bling...somewhere between Avatar and Batman" - is a unique tool for assessing forest health and identifying causes of deforestation. The foundation is proud to have supported the development of CAO's mapping technology, as well as its research in the Amazon, through grants from both our Science and Environmental Conservation programs. We're excited to see what exciting new science will come from CAO-3.
In addition to a fancy new plane, CAO also now has a beautiful new website, complete with image and video gallery. Check it out to learn more about their work at cao.carnegiescience.edu.
Blog post from CAO "captain" and principal investigator, Greg Asner:
Today my team and I launch the third generation Carnegie Airborne Observatory, or CAO-3. It feels a world away from the first CAO launched in 2006, or CAO-2 from eons ago…in 2011. But things are very different this time.
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We have a newly expanded team of scientists, aircraft and sensor engineers, and pilots, who collectively make up the Dream Team we’ve been needing to assemble for maximum impact. I’ve worked with high performers in military, civilian, government, non-government, State, academic, and conservation organizations, and I’ve never had a team better than the one assembled now for CAO-3. It seems that we can do anything together. And we already have. Read on…
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