AfriSAR

The Campaign

AfriSAR was an airborne investigation that NASA collaborated on with the European Space Agency and Gabonese Space Agency during the 2016 deployment. AfriSAR focused on collecting airborne and ground-based measurements to better understand forest structure and evaluate biomass retrieval algorithms. The deployment took place 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) gathered observations to provide details about forest canopy height, structure, and topography. The 2016 AfriSAR 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)