Forest floor and forest canopy

As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon – the planet’s largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite now in orbit, ESA is helping Brazil prepare to transform this new mission’s groundbreaking data into actionable knowledge for protecting the rainforest and confronting climate change.

Although the Biomass mission is still being commissioned, these two side-by-side images reveal a section of Amazon rainforest. The image on the left shows the forest floor, while the image on the right captures the canopy about 30 metres above the ground.

Read full story: Brazil gears up to harness ESA’s Biomass data