An assessment of forest biomass maps in Europe using harmonized national statistics and inventory plots.

ABSTRACT: Maps of aboveground forest biomass based on different input data and modelling approaches have been recently produced for Europe, opening up the possibility for several applications and products not obtainable by summary statistics. However, the accuracy assessment of the existing maps is limited by the lack of reference data consistent over the study region and representative of the maps cells. Here, we used harmonized forest biomass data for 26 European countries derived by National Forest Inventories using a common biomass definition and estimator to assess four biomass maps. The assessment was performed at regional, national and sub-national scales using harmonized statistics derived from almost half million ground plot measurements, and at pixel level using a subset of 22,166 plots co

SUBMITTER: Avitabile V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5806600 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature