Fridman, Karl Jonas
- Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Above-ground biomass (AGB) is considered an essential climate variable that underpins our knowledge and information about the role of forests in mitigating climate change. The availability of satellite-based AGB and AGB change (Delta AGB) products has increased in recent years. Here we assessed the past decade net Delta AGB derived from four recent global multi-date AGB maps: ESA-CCI maps, WRI-Flux model, JPL time series, and SMOS-LVOD time series. Our assessments explore and use different reference data sources with biomass re-measurements within the past decade. The reference data comprise National Forest Inventory (NFI) plot data, local Delta AGB maps from airborne LiDAR, and selected Forest Resource Assessment country data from countries with well-developed monitoring capacities. Map to reference data comparisons were performed at levels ranging from 100 m to 25 km spatial scale. The comparisons revealed that LiDAR data compared most reasonably with the maps, while the comparisons using NFI only showed some agreements at aggregation levels
Keywords
Above-ground biomass; Above-ground biomass change; Carbon flux; Map assessment; Global carbon cycle; Earth observation
Published in
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2023, volume: 118, article number: 103274
Publisher: ELSEVIER
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land
UKÄ Subject classification
Earth Observation
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103274
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/122327