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Evaluating The Remote Sensing And Inventory-Based Estimation Of Biomass In The Western Carpathians, Magdalena Main-Knorn, Gretchen G. Moisen, Sean P. Healey, William S. Keeton, Elizabeth A. Freeman, Patrick Hostert

Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Publications

Understanding the potential of forest ecosystems as global carbon sinks requires a thorough knowledge of forest carbon dynamics, including both sequestration and fluxes among multiple pools. The accurate quantification of biomass is important to better understand forest productivity and carbon cycling dynamics. Stand-based inventories (SBIs) are widely used for quantifying forest characteristics and for estimating biomass, but information may quickly become outdated in dynamic forest environments. Satellite remote sensing may provide a supplement or substitute. We tested the accuracy of aboveground biomass estimates modeled from a combination of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery and topographic data, as well as SBI-derived …