The next ESA's Earth Explorer will be BIOMASS, its launch is estimated in 2025 and its primary aim is to collect Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) acquisitions to improve the understanding of global forest status and temporal evolution [1]. BIOMASS is also the first P-band spaceborne SAR, with operational repeat-pass polarimetric-interferometric capabilities. This gives sensitivity to the full...
Wenyu Yang [1] , H. Aghababaei [2], Giampaolo Ferraioli [1]
[1] Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope,” 80143, Naples, Italy
[2] University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Enschede, The Netherlands
Characterizing and monitoring forests are essential for tracking climate change and quantifying the global carbon...
Approximately more than 50% of Africa’s land surface is covered by the savanna biome. Estimation of savanna vegetation are essential to provide detailed land cover information. Prediction of savanna vegetation at pixel level is important for conservation purposes, understanding bush encroachment, herbivory and fire dynamics in savannas. However, estimating vegetation cover in the savannas can...
BIOMASS is ESA's 7th Explorer Mission. It features for the first time ever a spaceborne quad polarimetric SAR at P-band. BIOMASS is a polar orbiting satellite aiming primarily at deriving forest biophysical variables essential to the understanding of the carbon cycle.
In order to further support the science behind the upcoming BIOMASS satellite mission, ESA will set up a cloud-computing...
G. Rivolta, C. Orrù, M. Iesué, C. Camporeale, A. Mujeeb, M. Zribi, E. Ayari, N. Baghdadi,N. Sami, J. Cohen, J. Jorge Ruiz, J. Lemmetyinen, A. Fiengo, F. Ticconi, and D. Comite
Forward and inverse models developed by the Earth Observation (EO) scientific community describe, respectively, the relation between electromagnetic waves interacting with natural surfaces and the methodologies for...
