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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium proceedings |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 2012 |
Pages | 5542-5545 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781467311601 |
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Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth - Munich, Germany Duration: 22 Jul 2012 → 27 Jul 2012 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6334512/proceeding |
Conference
Conference | 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Munich |
Period | 22/07/2012 → 27/07/2012 |
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Series | IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
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ISSN | 2153-6996 |
Keywords
- Carbon cycle
- REDD
- Biomass
- Forest height
- Polarimetric interferometry
- Bayesian methods