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This is the home page of Prof. Ranga B. Myneni's Climate and Vegetation research group in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.

Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, speaking to a 1997 White House roundtable on climate change, asked: "Is it enough for a scientist simply to publish a paper? Isn't it the responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn't it your responsibility to actually do something about it, enough so that action actually takes place? If not us, who? If not now, when?" Let this great man's words inspire you to act - click on the link below.

Your Climate Change
Protect Earth From Climate Change With a Billion Linked-Hands



The Greening Earth (A Video Lecture)
Research Highlights

Research Foci:
Earth's Greenness, Northern Vegetation Phenology, Amazon Forests , Amazon Phenology, Climate Change, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle, Food Security, Global Primary Production, Theory of Satellite Sensing of Vegetation, Radiative Transfer in Vegetation, Lidar Sensing of Vegetation, Climate-Vegetation Interactions & Feedbacks, Leaf Area Index from MODIS and AVHRR, Hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation, and Forest Tree Heights and Biomass

Here is a List of All Publications
From here download LAI & FPAR Data Sets
Download beautiful images: Earth's Greenness, Leaf Area on Earth, Radiation Absorption by Leaves on Earth

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Climate and Vegetation Research Group
Dept. of Geography,Boston University. Apr-18-2013