BIOMASS LEVEL-2 PRODUCTS - PART I: RATIONALE AND APPLICATIONS
Paper in proceeding, 2021
This paper describes the rationale and development of the estimation techniques for the level-2 data products of the European Space Agency's 7th Earth Explorer BIOMASS mission. BIOMASS is planned for launch in 2023 and will carry the first-ever P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) onboard a satellite. It has been designed to produce consistent global maps of the Earth's forests during a nominal five-year lifetime. Fully polarimetric SAR data will be collected and the satellite orbit will be selected for repeat-pass interferometry and tomography in separated mission phases. Mission requirements call for three level-2 data products: above-ground biomass, forest height and forest disturbance. The paper also discusses the expected limitations of the estimation techniques and remaining problems to be addressed.
Above-ground biomass
SAR
Earth Explorer
Polarimetry
Interferometry
Forest height
Tomography
BIOMASS
Forest disturbance
P-band
Author
Lars Ulander
Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro
Polytechnic University of Milan
Francesco Banda
ARESYS
Davide Giudici
ARESYS
Maciej Soja
University of Tasmania
MJ Soja Consulting
S. Quegan
University of Sheffield
Kostas Papathanassiou
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
S. Tebaldini
Polytechnic University of Milan
T. Le Toan
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CES)
Ludovic Villard
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CES)
Björn Rommen
European Space Agency (ESA)
Klaus Scipal
European Space Agency (ESA)
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Vol. 2021-July 779-782
9781665403696 (ISBN)
2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021
Brussels, Belgium,
Brussels, Belgium,
Subject Categories
Aerospace Engineering
Geophysics
Computer Science
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553348