Of the available on-line biomass assays, the radio-frequency impedance method (often referred to as capacitance) is generally regarded as the most robust and reliable method to monitor viable biomass ...

Determined to measure how much carbon Earth's forests capture, the European Space Agency and Airbus have developed the Biomass satellite. Launched on April 29, Biomass uses the P-band of the radio ...

Next year, a radar reflector about as wide as a black spruce tree is tall will direct its gaze toward Earth’s forests 410 miles below. The European Space Agency’s Biomass mission will send a 39-foot ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture. ESA/ATG medialab Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the ...

Hamdi Zurqani is an assistant professor of geospatial science for the Arkansas Forest Resources Center and the College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Arkansas at ...

In 2018, scientists published the results of a years-long quest to tally up the weight of every single living thing on Earth. They tried to guess how much carbon sits inside our planet’s biomass — the ...

As countries search for alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass has gained attention as a renewable energy source capable of ...