UC Merced’s Dr. Erin Hestir co-led the groundbreaking NASA-funded project, BioSCape, proving that we can monitor Earth’s biodiversity from space! Over six weeks, a global team of 160+ scientists collected data from South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region, using advanced airborne imaging to study terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
Dr. Hestir Co-Leads NASA’s First Space Biodiversity Mission
