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)

5542-5545
978-1-4673-1158-8 (ISBN)

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Remote Sensing

Forest Science

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352350

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