The BIOMASS Mission - An ESA Earth Explorer candidate to measure the BIOMASS of the Earth's forests

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 52-55

  Scipal, K ^a   Arcioni, M ^a   Chave, J ^b   Dall, J ^c   Fois, F ^a   LeToan, T ^d   Lin, C C ^a   Papathanassiou, K ^e   Quegan, S ^f   Rocca, F ^g   Saatchi, S ^h   Shugart, H ⁱ   Ulander, L ^j   Williams, M ^k  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d CESBIO   (France)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^j SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

BIOMASS; P band; PolInSAR

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; REMOTE SENSING;

CALL FOR PROPOSALS; EARTH EXPLORER; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; PHASE 0; POLINSAR; SPACE SYSTEM; TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 78650861103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5648979     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. ESA, "BIOMASS: Candidate Earth Explorer Core Mission - Report for Assessment," 2008, p. 132.
3. J. Mittermayer and H. Runge, "Conceptual studies for exploiting the TerraSAR-X dual receiving antenna," Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003.
4. J. Dall and A. Kusk, "Azimuth Phase Coding for Range Ambiguity Suppression in SAR," Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004.