Review of remote sensing-based methods for forest aboveground biomass estimation: Progress, challenges, and prospects

L Tian, X Wu, Y Tao, M Li, C Qian, L Liao, W Fu - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Quantifying forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is essential for elucidating the global carbon
cycle and the response of forest ecosystems to climate change. Over the past five decades …

Upscaling forest biomass from field to satellite measurements: sources of errors and ways to reduce them

M Réjou-Méchain, N Barbier, P Couteron, P Ploton… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Forest biomass monitoring is at the core of the research agenda due to the critical
importance of forest dynamics in the carbon cycle. However, forest biomass is never directly …

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

L Duncanson, JR Kellner, J Armston, R Dubayah… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Estimate of winter-wheat above-ground biomass based on UAV ultrahigh-ground-resolution image textures and vegetation indices

J Yue, G Yang, Q Tian, H Feng, K Xu, C Zhou - ISPRS Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
When dealing with multiple growth stages, estimates of above-ground biomass (AGB) based
on optical vegetation indices (VIs) are difficult for two reasons:(i) optical VIs saturate at …

Collect earth: Land use and land cover assessment through augmented visual interpretation

A Bey, A Sánchez-Paus Díaz, D Maniatis, G Marchi… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Built on Google desktop and …

Examining spectral reflectance saturation in Landsat imagery and corresponding solutions to improve forest aboveground biomass estimation

P Zhao, D Lu, G Wang, C Wu, Y Huang, S Yu - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
The data saturation problem in Landsat imagery is well recognized and is regarded as an
important factor resulting in inaccurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation …

Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

JF Bastin, N Barbier, M Réjou-Méchain, A Fayolle… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Large tropical trees and a few dominant species were recently identified as the main
structuring elements of tropical forests. However, such result did not translate yet into …

Investigating the robustness of the new Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager derived texture metrics in estimating plantation forest aboveground biomass in resource …

T Dube, O Mutanga - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2015 - Elsevier
The successful launch of the 30-m Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) pushbroom
sensor offers a new primary data source necessary for aboveground biomass (AGB) …

Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data

O Csillik, P Kumar, J Mascaro, T O'Shea, GP Asner - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Tropical forests are crucial for mitigating climate change, but many forests continue to be
driven from carbon sinks to sources through human activities. To support more sustainable …

Decrease of L-band SAR backscatter with biomass of dense forests

S Mermoz, M Réjou-Méchain, L Villard… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is one of the most promising remote sensors to map forest
carbon. The unique spaceborne and long-wavelength SAR data currently available are L …