Tag: biosphere
ALBIOM (ALtimetry for BIOMass)
Prime company: DEIMOS SPACE UK LTD (GB)The ALBIOM project (ALtimetry for BIOMass) proposes to derive forest biomass using SAR Altimetry Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 (S3) Mission. Biomass is at present monitored globally using optical satellites, SAR and LiDAR technology, but it is still poorly quantified in most parts of the world, and the satellite data currently exploited for this purpose …
PHOTOPROXY: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC-PROXY EXPERIMENT
Prime company: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH (DE)In few years from now, ESA’s BIOMASS and FLEX Earth Explorers satellite missions will open a new opportunity to enhance our knowledge of the global carbon cycle. In particular, the scientific exploitation of BIOMASS and FLEX in synergy with the Sentinel satellite series and other existing and future missions (e.g. CMOS, GEDI, NISAR, Tandem-X/L) will …
SENTINEL-5P+ INNOVATION SOLAR INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE (SIF)
Prime company: NOVELTIS SAS (FR)The ESA –TROPOSIF project is one of the seven themes from the Sentinel-5p+ Innovation (S5p+I) activity funded by ESA, which aims at developing novel scientific products / retrieval methods from the data acquired by the TROPOMI (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument) instrument aboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission launched in October 2017. Although the Sentinel-5P mission was designed …
PolSAR pro BIO
The PolSARpro v6.0 (Biomass Edition) Software proposes a great collection of well-known algorithms and tools and establishes a foundation for the exploitation of polarimetric techniques for scientific developments and stimulates research and applications developments using Pol-SAR, Pol-InSAR, Pol-TomoSAR and Pol-TimeSAR data. The PolSARpro v6.0 (Biomass Edition) Software specific interface performs complete end-to-end processing without the …
SMOS+ VEGETATION
Prime company: THE INVERSION LAB THOMAS KAMINSKI CONSULTING (DE)ESA’s SMOS mission is part of ESA’s Living Planet Programme and carries the first-ever, polar-orbiting, space-borne, 2-D interferometric radiometer providing observations at 1.4 GHz. From the Level 1 brightness temperatures we derive the Level-2 data products, namely surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth (VOD) (over land) and sea surface salinity (over oceans). SMOS not …
Using a datacube to assess changes in the Earth System
ESA’s Earth System Data Lab is a new virtual lab to access a wide array of Earth observations across space, time and variables. It consists of two elements: the data cube and an interface to execute different analyses on the data cube. Young researchers selected in the Early Adopters Call launched in 2018 used the …
InSAR Short-Time-Series for Land Cover Classification
Interferometric (InSAR) short-time-series of Sentinel-1 SAR data acquired over central Europe were exploited in a new approach for the generation of large-scale thematic maps. Temporal features, extracted from the evolution of the interferometric coherence, together with backscatter, were used as input for a machine learning-based classifier. Three land cover classes were extracted: artificial surfaces, forests, …
PolSAR pro 6.0 BIO
The new PolSARpro 6.0 BIO Edition is available now at step.esa.int You can download it here : http://step.esa.int/main/download/polsarpro-v6-0-biomass-edition-toolbox-download/ Join discussions on PolSARpro and polarimetry in our dedicated forum https://forum.step.esa.int/c/PolSARpro
BIOMASCAT: Assessing vegetation carbon dynamics from multi-decadal spaceborne observations
Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)Characterization of forest biogeochemical cycles is of paramount importance in Earth system science to understand contemporaneous dynamics and for expanding global land models in order to predict future trends of vegetation and climate. Thanks to the increasing amount of spaceborne observations of land and ocean surfaces, data-driven models are revealing intriguing trends and mechanisms and …