GeoSAR continues to make headlines! Fugro Earthdata recently announced that the Blue Moon Fund decided to utilize GeoSAR’s biomass mapping solution in the Amazon Rainforest. GeoSAR’s unique duel band frequencies (X-band and P-band) provide the perfect solution for estimating tropical rainforest biomass. The X-band reflects of the tree tops were the P-band penetrates through the foliage reflecting the near bare Earth, thus producing landscape-level estimates of carbon content in lowland tropical forests. Project deliverables include digital, high-resolution above-ground biomass estimates for the project area, and a map of total carbon storage for evaluation of REDD related baseline. The work will be funded through a grant extended by the Blue Moon Fund and executed through the fund’s partnerships with Wake Forest University (WFU) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Please stay tuned for more GeoSAR updates!

Tags: biomass, Blue Moon Fund, Carbon accounting, Fugro EarthData, GeoSAR, NASA, radar, REDD

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