Evaluating spatial coverage of data on the aboveground biomass in undisturbed forests in the Brazilian Amazon.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Brazilian Amazon forests contain a large stock of carbon that could be released into the atmosphere as a result of land use and cover change. To quantify the carbon stocks, Brazil has forest inventory plots from different sources, but they are unstandardized and not always available to the scientific community. Considering the Brazilian Amazon extension, the use of remote sensing, combined with forest inventory plots, is one of the best options to estimate forest aboveground biomass (AGB). Nevertheless, the combination of limited forest inventory data and different remote sensing products has resulted in significant differences in the spatial distribution of AGB estimates. This study evaluates the spatial coverage of AGB data (forest inventory plots, AGB maps and remote sensing

SUBMITTER: Tejada G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7226941 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature