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DOI	10.1016/j.rse.2019.03.032
	The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space
	Quegan, Shaun 1,2; Thuy Le Toan 3; Chave, Jerome 4; Dall, Jorgen 5; Exbrayat, Jean-Francois 2,6; Dinh Ho Tong Minh 7; Lomas, Mark 1,2; D’Alessandro, Mauro Mariotti 8; Paillou, Philippe 9; Papathanassiou, Kostas 10; Rocca, Fabio 8; Saatchi, Sassan 11,12; Scipal, Klaus 12; Shugart, Hank 13; Smallman, T. Luke 2,6; Soja, Maciej J.14,15; Tebaldini, Stefano 8; Ulander, Lars 16; Villard, Ludovic 3; Williams, Mathew 2,6
通讯作者	Quegan, Shaun
来源期刊	REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
ISSN	0034-4257
EISSN	1879-0704
出版年	2019
卷号	227 页码:44-60
英文摘要	The primary objective of the European Space Agency's 7th Earth Explorer mission, BIOMASS, is to determine the worldwide distribution of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) in order to reduce the major uncertainties in calculations of carbon stocks and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere, including carbon fluxes associated with Land Use Change, forest degradation and forest regrowth. To meet this objective it will carry, for the first time in space, a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Three main products will be provided: global maps of both AGB and forest height, with a spatial resolution of 200 m, and maps of severe forest disturbance at 50 m resolution (where global is to be understood as subject to Space Object tracking radar restrictions). After launch in 2022, there will be a 3-month commissioning phase, followed by a 14-month phase during which there will be global coverage by SAR tomography. In the succeeding interferometric phase, global polarimetric interferometry Pol-InSAR coverage will be achieved every 7 months up to the end of the 5-year mission. Both Pol-InSAR and TomoSAR will be used to eliminate scattering from the ground (both direct and double bounce backscatter) in forests. In dense tropical forests AGB can then be estimated from the remaining volume scattering using non-linear inversion of a backscattering model. Airborne campaigns in the tropics also indicate that AGB is highly correlated with the backscatter from around 30 m above the ground, as measured by tomography. In contrast, double bounce scattering appears to carry important information about the AGB of boreal forests, so ground cancellation may not be appropriate and the best approach for such forests remains to be finalized. Several methods to exploit these new data in carbon cycle calculations have already been demonstrated. In addition, major mutual gains will be made by combining BIOMASS data with data from other missions that will measure forest biomass, structure, height and change, including the NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar deployed on the International Space Station after its launch in December 2018, and the NASA-ISRO NISAR L- and S-band SAR, due for launch in 2022. More generally, space-based measurements of biomass are a core component of a carbon cycle observation and modelling strategy developed by the Group on Earth Observations. Secondary objectives of the mission include imaging of sub-surface geological structures in arid environments, generation of a true Digital Terrain Model without biases caused by forest cover, and measurement of glacier and icesheet velocities. In addition, the operations needed for ionospheric correction of the data will allow very sensitive estimates of ionospheric Total Electron Content and its changes along the dawn-dusk orbit of the mission.
英文关键词	Biomass Forest height Forest disturbance Carbon cycle Pol-InSAR Polarimetry Tomographic SAR P-band SAR Sub-surface imaging Unbiased DTM Icesheet and glacier motion Ionospheric effects
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	England ; France ; Denmark ; Scotland ; Italy ; Germany ; USA ; Netherlands ; Australia ; Sweden
开放获取类型	Green Accepted, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000468720300004
WOS关键词	GROWING STOCK VOLUME ; TANDEM-X DATA ; BOREAL FOREST ; L-BAND ; POL-INSAR ; BACKSCATTER INTENSITY ; HEIGHT ESTIMATION ; TROPICAL FORESTS ; CARBON-DENSITY ; IMAGING RADAR
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
来源机构	French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218424
作者单位	1.Univ Sheffield, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England; 2.Natl Ctr Earth Observat, Leicester, Leics, England; 3.Univ Paul Sabatier, Ctr Etud Spatiales Biosphere, IRD, CNRS,CNES, Toulouse, France; 4.Univ Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Lab Evolut & Divers Biol, Toulouse, France; 5.Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Space Inst, Lyngby, Denmark; 6.Univ Edinburgh, Sch GeoSci, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; 7.Univ Montpellier, UMR TETIS, IRSTEA, F-34093 Montpellier, France; 8.Politecn Milan, Dipartimento Elettron Informaz & Bioingn, Milan, Italy; 9.Univ Bordeaux, Pessac, France; 10.German Aerosp Ctr eV DLR, Wessling, Germany; 11.Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA; 12.ESA ESTEC, Mission Sci Div, Noordwijk, Netherlands; 13.Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA; 14.MJ Soja Consulting, Hobart, Tas, Australia; 15.Univ Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, Australia; 16.Chalmers Univ Technol, Gothenburg, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Quegan, Shaun,Thuy Le Toan,Chave, Jerome,et al. The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space[J]. French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development,2019,227:44-60.
APA	Quegan, Shaun.,Thuy Le Toan.,Chave, Jerome.,Dall, Jorgen.,Exbrayat, Jean-Francois.,...&Williams, Mathew.(2019).The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space.REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT,227,44-60.
MLA	Quegan, Shaun,et al."The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space".REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT 227(2019):44-60.