"The biomass of the northern hemisphere’s forests has been mapped greater precision than ever before."
"Accurately measuring forest biomass and how it varies are key elements for taking stock of forests and vegetation. Since forests assist in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mapping forest biomass is also important for understanding the global carbon cycle. With processing software drawing in stacks of radar images from ESA’s Envisat satellite, scientists have created a map of the whole northern hemisphere’s forest biomass in higher resolution than ever before – each pixel represents 1 km on the ground." ESA News on 26th June 2013, http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Earth_s_northern_biomass_mapped_and_measured Comments are closed.
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