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Satellite Launches On Mission To 'Weigh' World's 1.5 Trillion Trees
Thursday May 1, 2025. 09:00 AM , from Slashdot
![]() To 'weigh' the planet's trees and determine their carbon dioxide capacity, Biomass will use a P-band synthetic aperture radar. It's the first such piece of technology in space. The radar can penetrate forest canopies and measure woody biomass, including trunks, branches and stems, the ESA said. Most forest carbon is stored in these parts of the trees. Those measurements will act as a proxy for carbon storage, the ESA said. Once the radar takes the measurements, the data will be received by the large mesh reflector. It will then be sent to the ESA's mission control center. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/30/231235/satellite-launches-on-mission-to-weigh-worlds-15-tri...
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