The new mission of the European Space Agency (ESA ‘), which will mit the forests of the world, will start at the end of this month. It is known as a mission of the biomass, it will provide information on the condition of the planet forests and how they change, which will help to expand the knowledge of acting measures in the carbon cycle.
The mission will disappear on April 29, from the European spacecraft to the European spacecraft to the European spacecraft. It will be placed in the sun synchronous orbit (SSO) – a kind of orbit in which satellites synchronize with the sun at a height of about 666 km.
Biochoa is the ESA’s second Explorer mission. As part of the Earth Explorer program, the space agency has launched satellites to observe various aspects of the planet system.
What will the mission of the biomass do?
Forests are an essential part of the world’s carbon cycle, as they keep them in a huge amount of carbon. Scientists estimate that the forests absorb about 16 billion meters Carbon dioxide (CO2) The year is currently occupied by 861 gigatons in their branches, leaves, roots and lands.
However, there is a lack of ground biomass forest, the total mass of living organisms above forest vegetation and a scale of forest height. As a result, there is a limited idea of the state of forest, their contribution and impact on the carbon cycle and climate. The primary goal of the biomass mission will be to solve this knowledge gap.
It is important that the mission will also allow scientists to measure how carbon levels change, as people continue to reduce trees and increase CO2 levels in the atmosphere. In 2023, 3.7 million hectares of tropical forests were created, which are equivalent to ten football fields in the forest lost every minute, according to the World Resource Institute. “This forest loss in 2023 produced about six percent of the estimated global emissions of carbon dioxide,” the report said.
This was reported by ESA Director of Observation Programs Simonetta Chelin Observer“We need to know the health of our tropical forests. We need to know the quality and variety of its vegetation and the amount of carbon holding there.
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Beyond the monitoring of the forest, the mission of the biomass will follow the movement of ice sheets in Antarctica and creates digital models of located areas covered with dense vegetation.
How is the forests to control the mission of the biomass?
To perform its goals, the mission will use synthetic aperture Radar (SAR) – satellite image techniques that use radar channels to mapping the earth’s surface. This SAR sensor will operate in the frequency range of a long wave of the Long channel, 70 cm wavelength. Consequently, unlike other short-term SAR sensors, P-Band SAR will be able to fall down with forest blanks to assess how carbon is stored on the floor and branches of the trees in the world of the world. The sensor will also appreciate the number of forest biomass.
It is noteworthy that the biomass is the world’s first satellite hosting P-Band SAR. The satellite fits with a huge 12 m antenna, which will be located because it starts its sweep on earth.
Shown Kwegan, researcher at Shojajant University (England) and the head of the Biomass Team The Guardian:.
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What is the country’s study plan?
Within this program, the satellites are called to provide basic information for the country’s interior, skin (frozen parts), hydrafthera, atmosphere, ionosphere (all charged atmospheric).
The first spacecraft, the field of gravity and the Sustainable State Ocean Explorer (GOJE), came out of 2009.
The most recent was the Mission of Aerosol and Radhare, the Earth Earthhare (Earth Earthhare), which was launched in May 2024. Among other things, among other things, it contributes to better understanding of the country’s radiation balance.
