About#
What is BIOMASS BPS?#
The BIOMASS Processing Suite (BPS) is the open-source software developed to process Level 1, Level 2A, and Level 2B data from the ESA BIOMASS Earth Explorer mission.
It is being developed by Aresys and ACRI-ST under ESA contract, and is published as open source in alignment with ESA’s Open Science policy and the FAIR principles.
Project facts#
Mission |
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Mission type |
P-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) |
Goal |
Mapping global forest biomass and its annual evolution |
Expected use |
5+ years of operations, 20+ years of public data exploitation |
License |
Apache License 2.0 |
Source language |
Python 3.12 |
Repository |
In this section#
Applicable documents
The full list of ATBDs, SUM, ICD, PFD and auxiliary specifications applicable to the current BPS release, with PDF downloads.
Licensing
Project license, contributions, dependencies, and REUSE compliance.
Citation#
If you use BIOMASS BPS in your research, please cite the project. A citation file
(CITATION.cff) will be published alongside the first stable release.
Contact#
Bug reports / feature requests: open an issue on GitHub.
General questions: see the Communication page for channels and meetings.
Security concerns: see
SECURITY.mdin the repository (to be added).
Acknowledgements#
ESA for funding the mission and the open-source initiative.
Aresys for the scientific algorithms and processor development.
ACRI-ST for the open-source governance, CI/CD design, and best-practices framework.
The scientific community for contributing reviews, ideas, and validations.