{"id":848042,"date":"2025-05-13T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/the-worlds-biggest-space-based-radar-will-measure-earths-forests-from-orbit\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:14:51","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-space-based-radar-will-measure-earths-forests-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/the-worlds-biggest-space-based-radar-will-measure-earths-forests-from-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s biggest space-based radar will measure Earth\u2019s forests from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the oceans. To understand exactly how much carbon they trap, the European Space Agency and Airbus have built a satellite called Biomass that will use a long-prohibited band of the radio spectrum to see below the treetops around the world&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/04\/18\/1115388\/esa-airbus-biomass-mission-measure-earths-forests-from-orbit\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Jacek Krywko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the oceans. To understand exactly how much carbon they trap, the European Space Agency and Airbus have built a satellite called Biomass that will use a long-prohibited band of the radio spectrum to see below the treetops around the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,192,1329],"tags":[5299,6420],"class_list":{"0":"post-848042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biggest","8":"category-sports","9":"category-worlds","10":"tag-biggest","11":"tag-worlds"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}