NASA GEDI produced a 1-kilometer biomass map for 2020.
Arianespace’s backlog currently includes 20 Airbus Defence and Space built satellites including CERES (x3), SYRACUSE 4B (COMSAT NG 2), EUTELSAT QUANTUM, METOP-SG A1, METOP-SG B1, THEOS-2, CSO 3, Pléiades Neo (x3), JUICE, Measat-3d, Biomass, EarthCARE, and CO3D (x4).
The new maps provide a global view of above-ground biomass distribution and spatial density for the years 2010, 2017, and 2018.
A research team working as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative produced the new above-ground biomass maps.
Airbus teams finalised the Biomass structure build in the second half of 2020.
Integration hardware onto the Biomass Structure Model Platform was completed in early January 2021.
Alpha Insights plans to combine X- and L-band SAR to produce a dataset capable of imaging through clouds, at night, through trees and foliage, and into biomass.
Airbus selected Vega to launch the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite in 2022 and also procured the July launch of the UAE’s Falcon Eye 1.
Airbus is building the Biomass satellite, a 1,200-kilogram carbon dioxide-monitoring spacecraft, under an ESA contract awarded in 2016.