# BIOMASS L2 Forest Disturbance
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L2
- **distributor**: esa
- **gsd m**: {"native":50}
- **access endpoint**: https://explorer.maap.eo.esa.int
- **access model**: restricted
- **licence**: ESA Earth Observation Terms and Conditions
- **primary data portal url**: https://explorer.maap.eo.esa.int
- **use cases**: ["Deforestation detection at sub-hectare resolution in dense tropical canopy where C-band SAR saturates","Forest disturbance monitoring in persistently cloud-covered equatorial regions beyond optical sensor reach","Structural forest loss quantification for REDD+ and carbon-credit verification workflows","Change frequency mapping across the tropical-boreal belt at global scale"]
- **practical limitations**: ["North America and Europe excluded from P-band acquisition due to US Space Object Tracking Radar coordination","Approximately 5-month global revisit insufficient for near-real-time alert applications","L2A FD product scheduled for open release April 2027; L2B FD scheduled December 2027; as of 2026-05-18 access is restricted to the BIOMASS commissioning team","Product file format not confirmed from a tier 1 source (format specification document was inaccessible during research)"]
- **known artefacts**: ["Two distinct sub-products: FP_FD__L2A (stack-based per cycle) and FP_FD__L2B (tile-based global composite); not to be merged without explicit handling of overlap regions","Interferometric processing requires consistent baseline geometry; orbit anomalies may degrade per-cycle detection performance"]
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- defor (topics) --[topic_capabilities]--> BIOMASS L2 Forest Disturbance

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Source: https://eo-atlas.org/data_products/biomass-l2-disturbance
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