The 2024 BIOMASS Summer School (21–25 October, Jena) focused on biomass and the carbon cycle, with lectures and hands-on sessions on ESA’s BIOMASS mission, SAR remote sensing, and ecosystem monitoring. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, it brought together experts and early-career scientists to advance methods for measuring, modeling, and understanding global biomass dynamics.
The session opens with a question-and-answer session on the topics addressed the previous day. Subsequently, Kostas Papathanassiou (DLR – Microwaves and Radar Institute) introduces the concept of SAR Interferometry, highlighting aspects such as the relationship between microwave phase and the distance to a target on the Earth’s surface, as well as the concept of coherence. He then proceeds to discuss Polarimetric SAR Interferometry and its application to forest height and volume inversion.
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