Biomass End-to-End mission performance assessment
Paco López‐Dekker, Jose A. Garcia, Francesco De Zan, Thomas Börner, Marwan Younis, Kostas Papathanassiou, Tomás Guardabrazo, Valerie Bourlon, Sophie Ramongassie, Nicolas Taveneau, Lars M. H. Ulander, Daniel Murdin, Neil Christopher Rogers, S. Quegan, Raffaella Franco · 2012
This paper provides an overview of the BIOMASS Mission End-to-End simulator (BEES) and of the mission performance analysis performed with it. The end-to-end performance, in terms of biomass estimates error, is close to the 20% error goal set for the mission. The main sources of errors are temporal decorrelation and the limited available bandwidth, while system induced errors have a negligible impact on the final performance.