Forest height from Biomass

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, this image shows the height in a section of rainforest that stretches from northern Brazil to Suriname. This capture also includes a corner of the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park.

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