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...
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...
9th Edition of the DLR/ESA Open PolInSAR Training Course 2025
A new edition of the DLR PolInSAR Training Course will take place from April 28, 2025, to July 25, 2025. The training will be conducted using ESA’s Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP). This course aims to develop an understanding of the information content of multi-parameter SAR data in an...
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...
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...
MAAP Joint-Team Face-to-Face Meeting for version 3D2
During 7 to 9 November 2023, ESA and NASA will meet at ESRIN in Frascati (Italy), to jointly plan future MAAP evolutions and discuss about its design and implementation.
POLINSAR and BIOMASS 2023
During the 11th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry and BIOMASS Workshop, the MAAP will be presented to the PolINSAR and BIOMASS communities. Participants to this workshop will have the chance to witness live demonstrations of the MAAP.
7th ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE ON RADAR POLARIMETRY
Hosted on the MAAP, the main objectives of the course are to Train the next generation of European and Canadian Principal Investigators (PIs); Explain theoretical principles, processing algorithms, data products and their use in various applications; Introduce available tools and methods for the exploitation of dual-pol and full-pol...