ESA BIOMASS: Hands On Exercise Biomass Products

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.

In this tutorial given by Carsten Pathe (Uni Jena, Chair of Remote Sensing), you will work with the CCI Biomass AGB maps produced by the ESA CCI Biomass Project. These maps provide global, spatially explicit estimates of above-ground biomass (AGB) in megagrams per hectare (tons per hectare), along with a separate layer of standard deviations (SDs). The CCI Biomass AGB products are compared with other provided datasets in order to identify and discuss notable patterns, similarities, and differences. Subsequently, an AGB Change Map will be generated.