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Deep Dive: NASA's CASALS instrument bridges gaps in 3D maps of Earth's surface

Ran in the 6:05 PM edition of LivePulse, Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Original reporting: Phys.org Space, 2026-10-21

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support from NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), the Concurrent Artificially-intelligent Spectrometry Lidar System (CASALS) could help researchers map the features of Earth's surface in detail.

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