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.
Matteo Pardini (DLR – Microwaves and Radar Institute) guides you through a practical exercise on forest height inversion from TanDEM-X InSAR data over the Mondah forest (Gabon). You load master/slave SLCs, apply a flat-earth phase compensation, and compute multilooked coherence; after correcting for system decorrelation (0.97), you derive volume coherence and invert height using (i) a closed-form box model and (ii) a canopy-profile lookup. Finally, you validate the InSAR-derived heights against LVIS lidar RH100 and visualize performance, discussing factors that affect accuracy and possible improvements.
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