The science and measurement concepts underlying the BIOMASS mission
Paper in proceeding, 2012
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.
Carbon cycle
Bayesian methods
forest height
polarimetric interferometry
REDD
biomass
Author
S. Quegan
University of Sheffield
J. Chave
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
J. Dall
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
T. Le Toan
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
K. Papathanassiou
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
F. Rocca
Polytechnic University of Milan
S. Saatchi
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
K. Scipal
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)
H. Shugart
University of Virginia
Lars Ulander
Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
M. Williams
University of Edinburgh
Proc. IGARSS 2012, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012
2153-6996 (ISSN)
5542-5545978-1-4673-1158-8 (ISBN)
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Subject Categories
Remote Sensing
Forest Science
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352350