Getting Started with Your Student Research and Accessing GLOBE Protocol Data - Trees around the GLOBE

Getting Started with Your Student Research

Each year of the campaign had a similar, yet enhanced feel with a combination of the science, student research, the use of online tools for data analysis, and the collaboration of multiple GLOBE campaigns.

You can access and visualize the GLOBE data via the GLOBE Visualization Tool. The campaign team members created several "How-To" videos showcasing just how easy it is to look at the data. This data can be used for student research projects. Check out the videos on the Quick Tutorials on How to Access Data on the GLOBE Visualization (GLOBE Vis) System page.

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Looking at GLOBE Land Cover and Tree Height for Student Research

Each year of campaign, we continued to highlightnmajor online tools, including:  The Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool! These tools allow you to look at global to regional to local land cover and tree height data and can be used to supplement your GLOBE student research projects.

We also developed 127 GLOBE country land cover maps (with tree height statistics) to help you in your research. You can find them at the links below:

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for all 127 GLOBE Program countries

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Asia and Pacific Region (19 countries)

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Africa Region (27 countries)

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region (45 countries)

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region (13 countries)

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean Region (21 countries)

Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE North America Region (2 countries)

Examples of Land Cover Maps

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2025 IVSS

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Associated NASA Missions and Campaigns

There are NASA missions and campaigns that provide space-based and airborne data that can align to the ground-based measurements and observations taken by GLOBE students, educators, and citizen scientists.

• Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2)
  •  https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Instrument on the International Space Station (ISS)
  • https://gedi.umd.edu/
• Landsat Satellites
  • https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM)
  •   https://gpm.nasa.gov/
• Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)
  • https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
  • https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/
• NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR)
  • https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/
• ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS)
  •   https://ecostress.jpl.nasa.gov/
• Goddard’s Lidar, Hyperspectral and Thermal Imager (G-LiHT)
  • https://gliht.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)
  • https://above.nasa.gov/
• Snow Experiment (SNOWEx)
  •   https://snow.nasa.gov/campaigns/snowex
• Gravity Recovery & Climate Experiment (GRACE) Tellus
  • https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grace-c/