Above-Ground Biomass Product ATBD#
Draft, pending Aresys and ESA approval
This is a draft web conversion of the official ATBD. The PDF on biomass-disc.info remains the authoritative reference until Aresys and ESA approve this version.
Authoritative document
This page is the web-rendered version of BIO-BPS-AGB-ATBD-ARE-024912 issue
3.1.4 dated 02 April 2026. The official PDF remains the archival
reference and is linked in
About → Applicable documents.
Document information
Field |
Value |
|---|---|
Title |
BPS AGB ATBD — Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document |
External reference |
|
Issue |
3.1.4 |
Date |
02 April 2026 |
Pages |
54 (authoritative PDF) |
Recipients
Name |
Organisation |
|---|---|
Cristiano Lopes |
ESA – ESRIN |
Michele Caccia |
ESA – ESRIN |
Muriel Pinheiro |
ESA – ESRIN |
Prepared by
Name |
Affiliation |
|---|---|
Maciej Soja |
Wageningen University & Research |
Lars Ulander |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Shaun Quegan |
University of Sheffield |
Paolo Mazzucchelli |
Aresys |
Francesco Banda |
Aresys |
Checked by
Name |
Affiliation |
|---|---|
Davide D’Aria |
Aresys |
Approved by
Name |
Affiliation |
|---|---|
Davide D’Aria |
Aresys |
Change history
Date |
Issue |
Change summary |
Author |
|---|---|---|---|
2023-06-16 |
3.0 |
First issue of the document |
M. Soja, L. Ulander, S. Quegan, P. Mazzucchelli, F. Banda |
2023-08-04 |
3.0.1 |
Post-PDR3: added no-selection criterion (§3.2); updated §4.1.4; clarified §3.4.4.2.2; updated §4; added second-iteration notes (§4.1.4.5); editorial corrections |
P. Mazzucchelli |
2023-11-17 |
3.1 |
CDR3: editorial corrections; updated §3.2.1, §4, §4.1.4.3, §4.1.4.5 |
P. Mazzucchelli |
2024-09-06 |
3.1.1 |
FAT3: updated real-elevation description; updated §4.1.2 input table; added reference-data selection at second iteration |
P. Mazzucchelli |
2024-12-13 |
3.1.2 |
Delta_FAT3: updated eq. 3.14–eq. 3.15, §3.5.5; updated §4.1.4.3 (power law model) and §4.1.4.6; renamed |
P. Mazzucchelli |
2025-04-30 |
3.1.3 |
BPS-FTO-BATCH4: split SKP and flattening calibration screens (§3.3.2, §3.3.4) |
P. Mazzucchelli, E. Giorgi |
2026-04-02 |
3.1.4 |
Post-launch (BPS V4.4.1): updated eq. 3.13 (sigma naught normalisation — removed spatial resolution normalisation factor to preserve dynamic range) |
F. Banda, E. Giorgi |