The science and measurement concepts underlying the BIOMASS mission

Shaun Quegan, Jerome Chave, Jørgen Dall, Thuy Le Toan, Kostas Papathanassiou, Fabio Rocca, Sassan Saatchi, Klaus Scipal, Hank Shugart, Lars Ulander, Mathew Williams

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    Abstract

    The BIOMASS mission is designed to provide unique information on the biomass in the world's forests at spatial and temporal resolutions suitable for characterizing their dynamics and their contribution to carbon cycle estimates. To achieve this it combines biomass estimates from direct inversion of polarimetric backscattering coefficients with Pol-InSAR forest height estimates. The mission will also support important secondary objectives, including sub-surface imaging in arid zones, production of a bare-earth DTM and ice applications, and is optimized to be robust against environmental and ionospheric disturbances.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium proceedings
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2012
    Pages5542-5545
    ISBN (Print)9781467311601
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth - Munich, Germany
    Duration: 22 Jul 201227 Jul 2012
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6334512/proceeding

    Conference

    Conference2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityMunich
    Period22/07/201227/07/2012
    Internet address
    SeriesIEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
    ISSN2153-6996

    Keywords

    • Carbon cycle
    • REDD
    • Biomass
    • Forest height
    • Polarimetric interferometry
    • Bayesian methods

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