Biomass Celebrates One Year in Orbit with Striking Global Forest Insights

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Source: European Space Agency
Biomass Celebrates One Year in Orbit with Striking Global Forest Insights
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ESA’s Biomass marks its first year in orbit, delivering P-band polarimetric SAR data that penetrates dense forests to quantify woody biomass, improving estimates of forest carbon stocks and enabling open access data since January, with images spanning the Amazon, Arctic and other landscapes.

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