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Biomass And Biofuels In Maine: Estimating Supplies For Expanding The Forest Products Industry, Jonathan Rubin, Kate Dickerson, Jacob Kavkewitz
Biomass And Biofuels In Maine: Estimating Supplies For Expanding The Forest Products Industry, Jonathan Rubin, Kate Dickerson, Jacob Kavkewitz
Energy & the Environment
This paper estimates the renewable energy potential of Maine’s forest resources, and how much energy these resources could potentially provide the state. Using the most recent state-specific data available, and a methodology similar to the Billion Tons Report, we find that ethanol production from Maine’s forest residues could potentially provide 18% of Maine’s transportation (gasoline) fuels with a fermentation wood to ethanol process. Making Fischer-Tropsch diesel (F-T diesel) using forest residues can replace 39% of Maine’s petro-diesel consumption. Actual levels of biofuels that can be produced will depend on conversion factors and forestry residue removals that are subject to uncertainty.
Slides: Tribal Perspectives On Natural Resource Policy, Donald Wharton
Slides: Tribal Perspectives On Natural Resource Policy, Donald Wharton
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
Presenter: Donald Wharton, Native American Rights Fund
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Relationships Between Remotely Sensed Data And Biomass Components In A Big Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata) Dominated Area In Yellowstone National Park, Mustafa Mi̇ri̇k, Jack E. Norland, Mario E. Biondini, Robert L. Crabtree, Gerald J. Michels
Relationships Between Remotely Sensed Data And Biomass Components In A Big Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata) Dominated Area In Yellowstone National Park, Mustafa Mi̇ri̇k, Jack E. Norland, Mario E. Biondini, Robert L. Crabtree, Gerald J. Michels
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
The predictive power of a hyperspectral imagery for estimating woody and herbaceous biomass were examined for a big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) dominated area in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America. The normalized difference vegetation (NDV) and structure insensitive pigment (SIP) indices were used to investigate the relationships between biomass components and reflectance spectra. Ground data were collected in 13 sample plots 1 m^2 in size by clipping all herbaceous vegetation to ground level and stripping green leaves from big sagebrush plants. Strong relationships (R^2 from 0.83 to 0.96) were found between the hyperspectral data and biomass components. The …