BIOMASS L2 Prototype Processor : Current Status
Paper in proceeding, 2019
The ESA BIOMASS mission will be the 7th Earth Explorer measuring the above-ground biomass (AGB) in the world's forests. The current ESA Level-2 (L2) implementation study focuses on defining and implementing the main algorithms for forest parameter retrieval from BIOMASS data. After the first year of L2 study innovative results were achieved: the development of ground cancellation, in particular, has proved to be huge value, since it removes from the data the effects of environmental variability and contributions unrelated to the forest carried in the ground scattering. In this paper the current processor implementation and validation activities of the L2 team will be described.
Biomass
SAR
interferometry
polarimetry
Author
Francesco Banda
ARESYS
Davide Giudici
ARESYS
Shaun Quegan
University of Sheffield
Klaus Scipal
European Space Agency (ESA)
Kostas Papathanassiou
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Lars Ulander
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
Ludovic Villard
CESBIO
Maciej Soja
University of Tasmania
Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro
POLIMI
Stefano Tebaldini
POLIMI
Thuy Le Toan
CESBIO
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
5996-5999
978-1-5386-9154-0 (ISBN)
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Yokohama, Japan,
Yokohama, Japan,
BIOMASS level 2 implementation study
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC) (4000119231/167/NL/CT), 2017-02-01 -- 2020-01-31.
Subject Categories
Other Computer and Information Science
Forest Science
Reliability and Maintenance
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898668
ISBN
9781538691540