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Battelle has announced that NASA will fund a three-year collaborative project to investigate how the chemical properties of leaves and tree canopy structures affect remote sensing observations. Funded under NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science program, the study will be led by Battelle, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of New Hampshire.

Christopher Scolese, formerly director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has taken oath to lead the National Reconnaissance Office. Joseph Kernan, undersecretary for intelligence at the Department of Defense, swore in Scolese during a ceremony on Aug. 5, NRO said Monday.