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An article titled NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems was published in The Kimberley Prospector and on the website of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on December 8 last year.

According to the article, an international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region, one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas. As part of the effort, researchers used NASA airborne and space-based instruments to gather complementary data to better understand the unique aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in this region. Their findings will inform the capabilities of future satellite missions aimed at studying plants and animals.

The study is led in South Africa by NRF-SAEON and the University of Cape Town.