CEOS Member Agencies with interests in missions and data products for forest canopy height and aboveground biomass will sponsor or co-sponsor one or more workshops (and require a written report) to define the scientific and policy requirements to quantify aboveground carbon storage in vegetation. These meetings should involve the key international science, applications, and remote sensing communities in specifying the technical foundation and scientific requirements for as well as the societal benefits of future missions to quantify aboveground carbon storage in vegetation globally.? The workshops should consider these requirements in the context of the added value to be derived from coordinated mission planning and associated data compilation activities both in the future and by exploiting archive data.
Requires additional resources from agencies but could be foreseen within appropriate agency actions/missions (e.g. ALOS-2, BIOMASS, Landsat-8, Sentinel 1/2, TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-Skymed, IceSat-2). Relevant also for OCO-2, GOSAT/GOSAT-2, Carbonsat, Merlin regarding observations of emissions from AFOLU changes etc. as well as relevant? measures of terrestrial/ocean carbon.