BIOMASS Level-2 Processor Implementation in BioPAL
Conference: EUSAR 2022 - 14th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
07/25/2022 - 07/27/2022 at Leipzig, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2022
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Banda, Francesco; Giorgi, Emanuele; Mazzucchelli, Paolo (Aresys, Milan, Italy)
Soja, Maciej (MJ Soja Consulting, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)
Mariotti d’Alessandro, Mauro (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy)
Alonso-Gonzales, Alberto (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany)
Lumnitz, Stefanie; Albinet, Clement; Scipal, Klaus (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy)
Abstract:
BIOMASS will provide unprecedented information about forests, thanks to the first spaceborne P-band SAR sensor, full polarimetry, interferometry-tomography. The challenges posed by this new technology required extensive investigations, leading to the Level-2 prototype processor for the retrieval of forest information. Some open points remain before launch though, with limited data and tools to address them. BioPAL was started to help bridging these gaps, reflecting latest scientific updates from BIOMASS studies in the processor and making algorithms available to other potential contributors. In this paper we present BioPAL software library current status, main components and framework.