The ESA BIOMASS mission
The gross exchange of carbon between the land surface and the atmosphere is the largest flux within the global carbon cycle. Biomass at the Earth’s…
Resource Category: Biosphere
Interactive Visualization of Vegetation Reflectance Models (IVVRM)
This tutorial introduces the Interactive Visualization of Vegetation Reflectance Models (IVVRM) tool, which is an interactive reflectance modeling setting, focusing on the PROSPECT + SAIL…
Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy of Agricultural Systems
This unit gives an overview on agriculture-related hyperspectral satellite data usage. The challenges a growing world population faces in regard to agriculture and the provisioning…
Biomass
Biomass is a crucial parameter in the estimation and quantification of the global carbon cycle. In this lesson the estimation of above ground biomass from…
Imaging spectroscopy of forest ecosystems
This unit introduces the basics of Forest Imaging Spectroscopy. Firstly, the spectral characteristics of vegetation on leaf and canopy level are shown and explained using…
Retrieval approaches of vegetation traits from imaging spectroscopy data
This unit focusses on quantification regression analysis and RTMs. A short introduction to the radiance regime of vegetation is followed by an overview on retrieval…
Regression-based mapping of forest aboveground biomass
This tutorial focusses on the possibilities to map forest Aboveground Biomass (AGB) from simulated EnMAP imagery. Practical hands-on training for working with the EnMAP-Box, including…
SAR Handbook
The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between NASA SERVIR and SilvaCarbon. Five trainings,…
Agriculture
The module “Agricultural Applications with SAR Data” provides information about the potentials and limitations of SAR data for farming activities. Relevant sensor and target parameters…