Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon

Paris (ESA) Mar 08, 2023

Forests hold a vast amount of Earth's terrestrial carbon and play an important role in offsetting anthropogenic emissions of fossil fuels. Since 2015, the world's tropical forests can be observed regularly at an unprecedented 6 to 12 day interval thanks to the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Millions of gigabytes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are acquired both day and night, regard