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

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Conference object , Article , Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine 01 Jul 2010 Denmark Publisher:IEEEJournal:2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Authors: Scipal, K.; Arcioni, M.; Chave, J.; Dall, Jørgen; Fois, F.; LeToan, T.; Lin, C-C; +7 Authors

doi: 10.1109/igarss.2010.5648979

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

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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 7th 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.

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Denmark

Related Organizations

Polytechnic University of Milan
Italy
Jet Propulsion Lab
United States
Swedish Defence Research Agency
Sweden
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère
France
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
France

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Keywords

P-band, Biomass, PolInSAR

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