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The ESA-sponsored AfriSAR campaign took place in Gabon between 2015 and 2016. It was designed to collect data from tropical forests in order to support the future ESA-BIOMASS mission. This paper addresses the potential of P-band PolIn-SAR and tomography for retrieving vegetation parameters from the multi-baseline airborne data acquired by ONERA over the forest of Lopé. It is shown that a correction of phase disturbances (phase screens) is necessary. A correction procedure based on recent works from the litterature is applied. The PolInSAR and tomographic results are presented and compared with the available LIDAR data.