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

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International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Vol. 2021-July p. 779-782
9781665403696 (ISBN)

Conference

2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021
Brussels, Belgium, 2021-07-11 - 2021-07-15

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Aerospace Engineering

Geophysics

Computer Science

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DOI

10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553348

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