14.6. Future perspective
Understanding of the Earth's carbon cycle is an urgent societal need as well as a challenging intellectual problem. Significant uncertainties remain about what processes cause the observed changes in the atmospheric composition of CO2. Terrestrial plants contain similar amount of carbon as entire atmosphere does and play important role in carbon cycling. Direct observations of carbon stocks and changes are important in global carbon studies.
Satellite and other remote sensing observations of the Earth system complement the in situ observations and are the only way to provide global data at high spatial and temporal resolutions, making it possible to evaluate global patterns in the carbon system in a manner that would ...
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