{"id":1232,"date":"2025-04-24T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/a-new-space-age-for-forests-but-groundwork-still-matters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:35:00","slug":"a-new-space-age-for-forests-but-groundwork-still-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/a-new-space-age-for-forests-but-groundwork-still-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"A new space age for forests \u2013 but groundwork still matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/04\/measuring_the_diameter_of_a_tree_in_forest_close_to_nova_xavantina_mato_grosso_brazil\/26674876-1-eng-GB\/Measuring_the_diameter_of_a_tree_in_forest_close_to_Nova_Xavantina_Mato_Grosso_Brazil_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring the diameter of a tree in forest close to Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, Brazil\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new era of forest monitoring is quite literally taking off, ushering in what scientists are calling the \u2018forest space age\u2019. On April 29, ESA will launch its revolutionary Biomass mission, the first satellite to carry a P-band radar into space \u2013 technology that is set to transform how we understand forests and the carbon they store. Along with other space agencies\u2019 instruments already in orbit or soon to be launched, there has never been so many \u2018eyes in the sky\u2019 focused on forests.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the work of people on the ground \u2013often in the most remote and challenging forest regions \u2013 also remains essential.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new era of forest monitoring is quite literally taking off, ushering in what scientists are calling the \u2018forest space age\u2019. On April 29, ESA will launch its revolutionary Biomass mission, the first satellite to carry a P-band radar into space \u2013 technology that is set to transform how we understand forests and the carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}