2006/09/07 by Slim Hamdani, S. Hamdani, Luc Arnold +11 · 2 citations
Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Atmosphere (unit) #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Atmospheric sciences #Context (archaeology) #Earth (classical element) #Environmental science #Geology #Meteorology #Physics #Planet #Remote sensing #Scale (ratio) #Spectral line #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #Vegetation (pathology) #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065032
Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2006/09/07 · openalex publication_date 2006/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Context.The detection of exolife is one of the goals of very ambitious future space missions or extremely large ground-based telescopes that aim to take direct images of Earth-like planets. While associations of simple molecules present in the planet's atmosphere (O2, O3, CO2 etc.) have been identified as possible global biomarkers, we analyse here the detectability of vegetation on a global scale on Earth's surface.