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Biomass Mapping

Methods for measuring forest carbon stocks at scale, combining airborne LiDAR, spaceborne sensors, and field plots. Reliable biomass estimation is a foundational input to baseline science.

6 papers in this collection

Biomass MappingOn belian.earth

Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo

Gregory Asner et al.

Biological Conservation, 2017

High-resolution aboveground carbon density mapping across Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, combining airborne LiDAR with field plot data. The resulting maps guided conservation priorities and restoration investment across degraded and intact forest landscapes.

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Biomass MappingOn belian.earth

Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests

Emily Doyle et al.

Environmental Research Letters, 2025

An evaluation of NASA GEDI spaceborne lidar for quantifying forest structure across degradation gradients in Amazonian rainforests. The study assessed how well GEDI captures canopy height and biomass variation in forests at different stages of degradation.

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Biomass MappingOn belian.earth

Estimating canopy height in tropical forests: Integrating airborne LiDAR and multi-spectral optical data with machine learning

Brianna Pickstone et al.

Sustainable Environment, 2025

New methods for estimating tropical forest canopy height by combining airborne LiDAR with multi-spectral optical satellite data using machine learning. Demonstrates that reliable canopy height estimation does not require expensive data sources or complex deep learning methods.

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Biomass MappingOn belian.earth

Repeated drone photogrammetry surveys demonstrate that reconstructed canopy heights are sensitive to wind speed but relatively insensitive to illumination conditions

Glenn Slade et al.

International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2025

UAV-based structure-from-motion photogrammetry is widely used to measure plant structure and biomass, but reproducibility under varying field conditions has been poorly characterised. This study found that reconstructed canopy heights are sensitive to wind speed but relatively insensitive to illumination, guiding survey design for digital MRV applications in forest carbon monitoring.

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Biomass Mapping

Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning

Tommaso Jucker et al.

Biogeosciences, 2018

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Biomass Mapping

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems

Andrew Cunliffe et al.

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2021

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