18 December, 2025 - Best wishes for 2026

 

We thank you for your cooperation and support. Please receive our best wishes for 2026!


BIOMASS P-Band Differential Interferogram

BIOMASS P-Band Differential Interferogram

16 December, 2025 - Strategic Partnership

 

Earth Big Data LLC and Earth Big Data Germany GmbH and GAMMA Remote Sensing AG are joining forces in a strategic partnership (pdf).

We're collaborating to deliver cloud-based solutions for highly efficient SAR data processing. This means faster, more scalable insights for the remote sensing community.

Plus, we agreed on being authorized resellers of each other's flagship software: Earth Big Data’s SEPPO and the GAMMA Software. Get integrated access and combined expertise!

Earth Big Data LLC and Gamma Remote Sensing AG - Strategic Partnership
15 December, 2025 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report (pdf) on GAMMA activities in 2025 is now available.

Annual Report 2025

Annual Report 2025

2 May, 2025 - ESA Applications

 

ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomass.

Above Ground Biomass (2022)

3 December, 2024 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report 2024 (pdf) summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.

Annual Report 2024

Annual Report 2024

18 November, 2024 - JERS-1 SAR global mosaic released

 

JAXA announced the release of JERS-1 SAR global mosaic dataset Ver.2 processed by Gamma Remote Sensing. The dataset consists of yearly mosaics of the SAR backscatter between 1992 and 1998 and a single global mosaic.

JERS-1 Global Mosaic

JERS-1 Global Mosaic (1992-1998)

15 December, 2023 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report 2023 (pdf)  summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.

Annual Report 2023

Annual Report 2023

Fringe Conference (2023) - Gamma Booth

Fringe Conference (2023)

GAMMA Presentations
09 December, 2022 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report 2022 (pdf) summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.

Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022

08 November, 2022 - ALOS Joint Workshop

 

At the ALOS Joint PI Meeting 2022, GAMMA presented the status of a global processing effort in which all ALOS-2 Fine-Beam Dual-Polarisation L-band images acquired since the launch of the mission are processed to radiometrically terrain-corrected level. The resulting database of ALOS-2 L-band SAR imagery will support the mapping of forest above-ground biomass in the ESA CCI Biomass project. The presented poster can be downloaded here.

ALOS Global Mosaic

L-Band, HV Backscatter Mosaic (2019) and (2020)
21 March, 2022 - International Forest Day

 

To draw attention to the international forest day, the European Space Agency gathered opinions from scientists of Gamma Remote Sensing and the Wageningen University that monitor forests with Sentinel data.


A Sentinel Success Story highlights the importance of Sentinel-1 global and repeated observations to map deforestation and the evolution of biomass: a breakthrough primarily in tropical regions where cloud cover does not allow for frequent observations with optical sensors.

 

Read the Sentinel Success Story at this link.

RADD alert map

Radar for Detecting Deforestation (RADD) shows spatially distributed forest disturbances.
14 December, 2021 - Annual Report

 

 

The Annual Report 2021 (pdf) summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.  

Annual Report 2021

Annual Report 2021

13 September, 2021 - Global seasonal interferometric Sentinel-1 coherence and backscatter data set

 

In a NASA/JPL-funded project, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG and Earth Big Data LLC have produced a global data set of Sentinel-1 coherence as well as backscatter. The data set, produced from 205000 Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath mode SLCs acquired between December 2019 and November 2020, comprises seasonal mosaics of the interferometric repeat pass coherence at repeat intervals of 6 to 48 days as well as backscatter at a spatial resolution of 3 arcseconds. The data can now be downloaded free of charge via the AWS Registry of Open Data.

 

The project results have been presented at the 2021 ESA Fringe Workshop.

Sentinel-1 Coherence and Backscatter - Global Mosaic

S-1 Global Coherence

11 August, 2021 - New paper on the global above-ground biomass pool for 2010

 

The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter around the year 2010, we generated a global, spatially explicit dataset of above-ground live biomass (AGB; dry mass) stored in forests with a spatial resolution of 1 ha...

 

The full paper can be found at this link.

Global Above Ground Biomass (2010)

Global Above Ground Biomass (2010)

17 March, 2021 - Maps to improve forest biomass estimates, ESA Press Release

 

New maps, generated by a research team working as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) provide a global view of above ground biomass distribution. GAMMA is responsible for the mapping algorithms, system development and map production.

 

The full press release from ESA can be found at this link.

 

For more information about the ESA CCI project and/or the activities carried out by GAMMA please contact Maurizio Santoro.  

Above ground biomass in Italy

Above ground biomass in Italy

11 December, 2020 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report 2020 (pdf) summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.  

Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2020

10 November, 2020 - Video presentations

 

We have now added a new sections including videos of recent presentations delivered at international conferences. Check the link here  below.

 

https://www.gamma-rs.ch/research/video-presentations

Video Presentations
16 March, 2020 - SARS-CoV-2

Dear customers and partners

 

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GAMMA Remote Sensing AG

01 January, 2020 - Annual Report

 

The Annual Report 2019 (pdf) summarizing the GAMMA activities is now available for consultation.  

Annual Report 2019

Annual Report 2019

01 October, 2019 - New 3-years EUROSTARS project started!

 

GAMMA, SATIM (www.satim.pl) and ICEYE Polska started the 3-years EUROSTARS E!113220 Project RAMON: INNOVATIVE RADAR-BASED SERVICE FOR NEAR REAL-TIME LANDSLIDES MONITORING. We design, develop and test an innovative radar-based landslides monitoring service to support different phases of the landslide risk management. The service combines existing, established elements as landslide velocity maps derived from stacks of satellite SAR data using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry with new near-real-time monitoring elements, as urgently required during crisis situations, made possible using a novel microsatellite constellation and terrestrial radars.

20 August, 2019 - UAV-borne and car-borne repeat-pass radar interferometry with our novel compact GAMMA L-band SAR

 

In fall 2018 and winter 2019, we have conducted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) campaigns demonstrating the feasibility of measuring surface displacements by means of UAV-borne and car-borne repeat-pass interferometry using the novel GAMMA L-band SAR system, a compact FMCW SAR system (weight: 7.65 kg) with up to 4 simultaneous receive channels and one or two (alternating) transmit channels supporting various interferometric as well as fully-polarimetric acquisition modes. The VTOL UAV used for the airborne SAR acquisitions is the Scout B1-100 developed and operated by Aeroscout GmbH. The car-borne SAR project is in collaboration with ETH Zurich, supported by Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency. Please check the documents below for more information.

 

1. GAMMA SAR system information (pdf)

2. Examples of application (pdf) 

GAMMA L-band SAR on Helicopter