The BIOMASS mission — An ESA Earth Explorer candidate to measure the BIOMASS of the earth´s forests

Author

Scipal, K. ; Arcioni, M. ; Chave, J. ; Dall, J. ; Fois, F. ; LeToan, T. ; Lin, C.-C. ; Papathanassiou, K. ; Quegan, S. ; Rocca, F. ; Saatchi, S. ; Shugart, H. ; Ulander, L. ; Williams, M.

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency, Nordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

55

Abstract

The European Space Agency (ESA) released a Call for Proposals for the next Earth Explorer Core Mission in March 2005, with the aim to select the 7^th Earth Explorer (EE-7) mission for launch in the next decade. Twenty-four proposals were received and subject to scientific and technical assessment. Six candidate missions were selected and further investigated in the preliminary feasibility studies (Phase 0). One of these missions is BIOMASS, which has recently been selected to proceed to Phase-A. BIOMASS is a response to the urgent need for greatly improved mapping of global biomass and the lack of any current space systems capable of addressing this need.

Keywords

environmental monitoring (geophysics); forestry; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2005 03; BIOMASS mission; EE-7 mission; ESA Earth Explorer candidate; Earth Explorer Core Mission; European Space Agency; forest biomass measurement; global biomass mapping; Antennas; Backscatter; Biomass; Carbon dioxide; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Satellites; Biomass; P-band; PolInSAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5648979

Filename

5648979