January 12, 2026
BIOMASS data available!
Finally, the first open data products have been released and are available 👉 Click here.
NEWS
October 28, 2025
18th Virtual EEBIOMASS Webinar
Now that BIOMASS is launched and produces data, it is time for the BIOMASS DISC to start its work. This webinar will introduce you the BIOMASS DISC: What is the DISC? Who is involved? What does it actually do? And why is it important? Click here for registration!
June 30, 2025
BIOMASS delivers first radar images
A new look at the Earth's green reserves.
June 23, 2025
Striking first images from BIOMASS
During the opening of the ESA Living Planet Symposium on July 23, 2025, in Vienna, Simonetta Cheli, Klaus Scipal, and Michael Fehringer from ESA unveiled the first images captured by the BIOMASS Earth Explorer. The impressive image shows tropical rain forest in Bolivia. Using different polarization channels, various features of the landscape can be identified: for example, green tones indicate rainforest, red tones indicate wetlands, purple represents grasslands, and black areas represent rivers and lakes. Click here for further information and more images
June 17, 2025
Meet the Project Office BIOMASS at the ESA Living Planet Smpoyium next week in Vienna (June 23-27, 2025).
Click here for more information!
May 20, 2025
EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025 in Jena
The third EEBIOMASS Summer School in May 2025 welcomed 22 on-site participants from 14 nationalities in Jena, complemented by many online attendees via Zoom. The event focused on the ESA BIOMASS mission, key SAR technologies, hands-on training, and active scientific exchange.
May 7, 2025
Successful deployment of 12m-diameter antenna!
'Today, one week after the launch of the BIOMASS satellite, the 12-meter mesh antenna reflector was successfully deployed. This is another important step forward.
April 30, 2025
ESA’s BIOMASS satellite successfully launched – A new era of forest observation begins
The European Space Agency’s BIOMASS mission will monitor forest biomass and disturbances in unprecedented detail.
April 30, 2025
BIOMASS successfully launched!
On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, the Earth Explorer BIOMASS was successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and reached its orbit: https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en-pm-esa-s-biomass-satellite-successfully-launched
April 27, 2025
BIOMASS Launch Event Broadcast!!
It is time ! On Tuesday April 29th, 2025, at 6:15 a.m. local time (09:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 a.m. CEST), Earth Explorer BIOMASS will be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
April 24, 2025
Final Preparations!
'BIOMASS is made ready for launch. It’s fueled and finally attached to the Vega-C rocket, which will bring it into orbit.
March 26, 2025
BIOMASS Ready to Launch !!
It is finally time ! On Tuesday April 29th, 2025, at 6:15 a.m. local time (09:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 a.m. CEST), Arianespace is to launch the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer Biomass satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
March 20, 2025
EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025
From May 12 to 16, 2025, we will hold the next EEBIOMASS Summer School in Jena, Germany, introducing you to different aspects of the Earth Explorer Mission BIOMASS. Click here for registration!
March 20, 2025
17th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop SPECIAL
'This time we will focus on “Upcoming opportunities and challenges in Forest missions” featuring BIOMASS, NISAR, GEDI and Geo-Trees! The workshop will take place on March 27, 2025 (Thursday), 13:00-16:00 CET.
February 20, 2025
The new PolinSAR course is now open for registration!
PolinSAR course is an online, hands-on course that aims to develop an understanding of the information content of multi-parameter SAR data in an interactive way. It is organised around 11 sessions over 11 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from SAR image formation up to tomographic processing. Click for more details…
February 20, 2025
OPEN CALL for BIOMASS Mission Cal/Val
ESA announced the opening of the Calibration/Validation (Cal/Val) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) call for the Biomass mission. With this call ESA invites research groups to participate in Biomass Cal/Val throughout the mission lifetime. Click for more details…
January 28, 2025
16th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
'This time we will focus on “Application of future BIOMASS products and data by industry users” featuring talks by The Inversion Lab, Planetek Italia and ZEBRIS Geo-IT! The workshop will take place on Feb 26, 2025 (Wednesday), 1o:00 (CET).
November 8, 2024
15th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
'We will have Ricardo Dalagnol and Nezha Acil to discuss High-resolution images and machine learning for forest monitoring! The workshop will take place on Dec 9, 2024 (Monday), 18:00 (CET).
August 21, 2024
14th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
We will have Benjamin, Hui, and Julia to discuss Global Vegetation Traits and Biomass! The workshop will take place on Sep 27, 2024 (Friday), 13:30 (CET). Click here for registration!
July 1, 2024
EEBIOMASS Summer School 2024
From October 21 to 25, 2024 we will hold the next EEBIOMASS Summer School in Jena, Germany, introducing you to different aspects of the Earth Explorer Mission BIOMASS. Click here for registration!
May 20, 2024
EEBIOMASS Summer School 2024
The second EEBIOMASS Summer School took place in October 2024 in Jena and welcomed 35 participants from 21 nationalities. The event focused on the ESA BIOMASS mission, key SAR concepts, hands-on training, and scientific exchange.
February 28, 2024
13th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
We will have Martin, Eric, Robson, and Ricardo to discuss remote sensing, AI, and forests! The workshop will take place on Mar 28, 14:30. Click here for registration!
February 8, 2024
The new PolinSAR course is now open for registration!
PolinSAR course is an online, hands-on course that aims to develop an understanding of the information content of multi-parameter SAR data in an interactive way. It is organised around 11 sessions over 11 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from SAR image formation up to tomographic processing. Click for more details…
January 5, 2024
12th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
This time, we will discuss Disturbances and Ecosystem Recovery! The workshop will take place on Jan 24, 12:30 – 14:30, CET, and we are looking forward to the talks from Rupert, Viola, Lei, and Sophie!
October 9, 2023
11th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop
We are looking forward to the talks from Taylor, Giovanni Forzieri, Nancy, and Sophie on Biomass and Climate Change!
October 6, 2023
MPG-BGC hosted Project Office BIOMASS Phase 2nd kick-off meeting!
On October 5th, 2023, the second phase of the Project Office BIOMASS kick-off meeting was held at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena. In attendance were Kostas from DLR and Andreas from UFZ, who joined the meeting in person. Due to ongoing fieldwork, Christiane was located in Africa but participated via Zoom…
August 28, 2023
10th Virtual EEBIOMASS Workshop in collaboration with FLEX
Join us for the first joint workshop of the EEBiomass and Flex German Project Offices! Learn more on remote sensing of fluorescence and how the FLEX mission contributes to the ESA Earth Explorer mission.
June 30, 2022
Eo-college releases BIOMASS mission MOOC
Our partners from the Friedrich Schiller University and eo-college just released a presentation with a lot of background knowledge on the BIOMASS mission! Great work and just in time for our Summer School!