Press Release: CNES and CESBIO set for major first with Biomass climate mission

The member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) recently gave the go-ahead for Biomass, the agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission scheduled to launch in 2020. CNES and the CESBIO1 biosphere research centre have joined forces for this climate-observing mission to acquire first-of-a-kind measurements of forests from Space in order to better understand the role they play in climate change processes.