Aboveground biomass
Abstract
Biomass is a critical variable for carbon cycles, soil nutrient allocations, fuel accumulation, and habitat environments in terrestrial ecosystems. A brief introduction is presented in the first section. The ground measurement techniques are described in the second section. It is then followed by various remote sensing methods for biomass estimation using optical remote sensing data (Section 15.3), lidar, and synthetic aperture radar data (Section 15.4). The methods for estimating biomass from multiple data sources are described in Section 15.5. Compared with the last edition, the estimation of biomass using spaceborne stereoscopic images is added in Section 15.4, and the synthesis of multisource ...
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