AfriSAR

The Campaign

AfriSAR was an airborne investigation that NASA collaborated with the European Space Agency and Gabonese Space Agency during the 2016 deployment. AfriSAR focused on collected airborne and ground-based measurements to better characterize forest structure and evaluate biomass retrieval algorithms. AfriSAR occurred in February 2016 across tropical forests in Gabon. NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), Land Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS), and Flugzeug Synthetic Aperture Radar (F-SAR) collected observations to provide details about forest canopy height, structure, and topography. AfriSAR 2016 deployment was funded through NASA's Carbon Monitoring System program.

Additional Notes

NASA participated in the 2nd deployment of this campaign. The information in this inventory covers the entire campaign, but only NASA data are available.

Repositories

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL)