Assessing Forest Resources Around the Globe

Detailed and up-to-date assessments of forest resources are a central source of information e.g. for reliable wood procurement planning, efficient forest management, or the fulfilment of national and/or international obligations such as Kyoto Protocol reporting.

Particularly – yet not only – in equatorial regions, that are almost permanently covered in clouds, the weather-independent TerraSAR-X data is of significant value: Information on the extent of (rain) forest areas and their status (deforestation, degradation), changes in comparison to previous acquisitions, and certain forest characteristics (e.g. tree species groups) is reliably detected.

TerraSAR-X's weather-independence and quick site access is an ideal feature when acute natural disasters call for a quick response: The sensor can deliver a reliable data basis for a rapid damage assessment, following e.g. a severe storm or forest fires that have impacted a forest area.

Thanks to its large swath of 100 km x up to 1,650 km in ScanSAR mode, TerraSAR-X reliably delivers data for large overview forest mapping and monitoring activities, significantly facilitating large area assessments. Further, the spacecraft also enables a detailed assessment of small-scale issues due to its ability to acquire data at a resolution of up to 1m.

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