Paper Info
Title
Comparison of space-based technologies for measuring BIOMASS: The road to the BIOMASS mission
Abstract
Information on above-ground biomass and its changes is of fundamental importance for carbon cycle and climate calculations. The difficulty of making ground-based inventories of biomass, especially in the tropics, has therefore led to serious attempts to estimate biomass from space. Active technologies hold the most promise. Lidar maps of forest height derived from IceSAT data have underpinned two recent pan-tropical biomass maps, using indirect statistical regression methods. More direct measurements of biomass are possible using radar, and can be combined with height measurements by a mission that supports a Pol-InSAR mode. Physics and experiment both indicate that the longest wavelength possible should be used, which is P-band. The BIOMASS mission is driven by these considerations, and is uniquely fitted to measure biomass, but will gain significantly from combination with both spaceborne L-band data, expected to be available during the mission lifetime, and with airborne lidar measurements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352001
IGARSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
pol-insar mode,synthetic aperture radar,lidar,indirect statistical regression methods,spaceborne l-band data,forest height,lidar maps,icesat data,above-ground biomass information,biomass ground-based inventories,carbon cycle,biomass mission,polarimetry,airborne lidar measurements,remote sensing by radar,climate calculations,remote sensing by laser beam,pan-tropical biomass maps,carbon management,polarimetric interferometry,radar interferometry,space-based technologies,vegetation,ecology,carbon dioxide,backscatter,carbon,laser radar,biomass,meteorology
Meteorology,Radar,Biomass,Vegetation,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,Computer science,Space-based radar,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Lidar,Carbon cycle
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1158-8
978-1-4673-1158-8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaun Quegan113423.25
Thuy Le Toan239748.74