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Area of Science:

  • Forestry and Environmental Science
  • Remote Sensing Applications
  • Biomass Estimation

Background:

  • Forest inventory data are crucial for large-area biomass mapping but often have spatial and attributional gaps.
  • Remotely sensed data offer continuous coverage but face challenges in complex forest environments.
  • These limitations can lead to underestimation of total above-ground biomass (AGB).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an integrated approach for generating spatially explicit estimates of large-area AGB.
  • To address limitations of forest inventory and remote sensing data in biomass estimation.
  • To provide a comprehensive AGB estimate for a large study area by combining multiple data sources.

Main Methods:

  • Applied a lookup table to forest inventory data for AGB estimation (R² = 0.64).
  • Used a lookup table with land cover and vegetation density from remote sensing data (R² = 0.52).
  • Developed a hybrid approach integrating both data sources to fill gaps in the forest inventory.

Main Results:

  • The forest inventory alone covered only 51% of the study area, estimating 40 Mt of AGB.
  • Remote sensing estimates were 30% higher (58 Mt) than the inventory estimate for the overlapping area.
  • The hybrid approach yielded a comprehensive AGB estimate of 62 Mt for the entire study area.

Conclusions:

  • Data integration is essential for comprehensive and spatially explicit AGB estimation over large areas.
  • The hybrid approach effectively overcomes spatial and attributional gaps present in individual datasets.
  • This integrated methodology enhances the accuracy and completeness of large-area biomass assessments.