NASA’s GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it stores – ...

Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite mission delivers completely new information on forest height and above-ground forest biomass from space. This ...

Climate change can be tackled from space, too. The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch a forest-measuring satellite that will monitor tropical rainforests with the help of a long-wavelength ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture. ESA/ATG medialab Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the ...

Three California counties have launched a pair of free online tools designed to connect private landowners with qualified forestry professionals, supporting wildfire risk reduction and improving the ...

Publication of a new map showing all the above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon is good news in the context of the severe crisis afflicting the world’s largest contiguous tropical rainforest.

How best to map ‘boreal’ or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the ...

A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients are added. The authors show that precipitation and ...

Distribution of above-ground biomass in the Amazon in metric tons per hectare. Riparian vegetation along watercourses can be seen to correspond to lower biomass density. Credit: Jean Pierre Ometto ...