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Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail
Scientists record Amazon’s structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per secondFive thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green. Huddled in a twin-engine Dornier 228 aeroplane called the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, the scientists are capturing multicoloured images of the Peruvian rainforest canopy that verge on the psychedelic.
published date:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:17:58 GMT