BIOMASS News

First Stunning Images from Biomass Unveiled at Living Planet Symposium 2025

The very first images from ESA’s Biomass mission have been revealed during the opening of the Living Planet Symposium 2025, which kicked off on 23 June in Vienna, Austria. These images offer a remarkable preview of the mission’s potential to deliver ground-breaking insights into Earth's forests and their role in the...

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The Biomass mission is now underway!

 Biomass successfully launched on April 29, 2025, from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Vega-C rocket carried Biomass into orbit at dawn, at 06:15 local time. About an hour later, the ESOC team (Darmstadt, Germany) that managed the operations, received the signal confirming that the satellite is operating...

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8th Edition of the DLR/ESA Open PolInSAR Training Course 2024

The last edition of the DLR PolInSAR Training Course will take place from November 4, 2024, to February 7, 2025. The training will be conducted using ESA's Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP). This course is designed to enhance participants' understanding of multi-parameter Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, from both...

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ESA/NASA MAAP Face to Face meeting on November 5-7, 2024

ESA and NASA met at Edge Hill University (UK) to discuss the latest developments in their joint MAAP project, focused on advancing understanding of aboveground terrestrial carbon dynamics. The meeting aimed to facilitate data sharing and processing between ESA and NASA users by integrating data, algorithms, and computing resources into an...

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