On 29 April 2025, the European Space Agency launched Biomass, the first satellite to fly a P-band synthetic aperture radar for measuring woody material inside forests rather than only the top of the canopy. That launch captured a basic truth about satellite services for biodiversity monitoring. Orbiting sensors rarely count species directly. They measure the physical conditions that make living communities possible: forest cover, canopy height, …
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