SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

JP Wigneron, X Li, F Frappart, L Fan, A Al-Yaari… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

Small-satellite synthetic aperture radar for continuous global biospheric monitoring: A review

SW Paek, S Balasubramanian, S Kim, O de Weck - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Space-based radar sensors have transformed Earth observation since their first use by
Seasat in 1978. Radar instruments are less affected by daylight or weather conditions than …

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

L Fan, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, J Chave, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Siberian forests are generally thought to have acted as an important carbon sink over recent
decades, but exposure to severe droughts and fire disturbances may have impacted their …

Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

X Tong, M Brandt, Y Yue, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed
forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal …

Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles

N Lang, N Kalischek, J Armston, K Schindler… - Remote sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a key climate mission
whose goal is to advance our understanding of the role of forests in the global carbon cycle …

[HTML][HTML] 未来星载SAR 技术发展趋势

邓云凯, 禹卫东, 张衡, 王伟, 刘大成, 王宇 - 雷达学报, 2020 - radars.ac.cn
星载合成孔径雷达(SAR) 以卫星等空间飞行器为运动平台, 具有全天时, 全天候, 全球观测能力,
已成为一种不可或缺的对地观测手段. 当前, 我国星载SAR 已实现分辨率从米级到亚米级 …

Fusing simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR data for regional aboveground biomass mapping

CA Silva, L Duncanson, S Hancock… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate mapping of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is critical for better understanding
the role of forests in the global carbon cycle. NASA's current GEDI and ICESat-2 missions as …

The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

S Quegan, T Le Toan, J Chave, J Dall… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The primary objective of the European Space Agency's 7th Earth Explorer mission,
BIOMASS, is to determine the worldwide distribution of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) …

Tropical forests did not recover from the strong 2015–2016 El Niño event

JP Wigneron, L Fan, P Ciais, A Bastos, M Brandt… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Severe drought and extreme heat associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño event have led to
large carbon emissions from the tropical vegetation to the atmosphere. With the return to …

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests

CD Philipson, MEJ Cutler, PG Brodrick, GP Asner… - Science, 2020 - science.org
More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them
threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity …