This year, space agencies are launching US$2 billion worth of satellite radars to measure Earth’s forests, with ‘NISAR’ developed by India and the United States about to join the European Space Agency’s ‘Biomass’ in orbit. These initiatives foster international collaboration and can help to address climate change and protect biodiversity.
Competing Interests
The authors are among the nine (non-paid) Executive Board members of GEO-TREES, a multi-institutional non-profit organization aiming to support ground measurements of forests and the people who make them, as part of a global forest biomass reference system. They are not paid by GEO-TREES.
Source: Ecology - nature.com
