Aboveground Biomass and Endogenous Hormones in Sub-Tropical Forest Fragments

Estimation of Tropical Forest Height and Aboveground Biomass from Dual-band InSAR measurements in Peruvian Amazon

In July 2009, Earthdata Inc. acquired Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data over a lager part of the Peruvian lowland Amazon and mountain forests (more than 5000 km 2 ). The project was designed to provide high spatial resolution imagery to the science community to estimate and map forest aboveground biomass and to assess the capability of the measurements for REDD baseline applications. GeoSAR c...

Aboveground Biomass Estimation Using Structure from Motion Approach with Aerial Photographs in a Seasonal Tropical Forest

We investigated the capabilities of a canopy height model (CHM) derived from aerial photographs using the Structure from Motion (SfM) approach to estimate aboveground biomass (AGB) in a tropical forest. Aerial photographs and airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data were simultaneously acquired under leaf-on canopy conditions. A 3D point cloud was generated from aerial photographs usin...

Estimation of Aboveground Biomass Using Manual Stereo Viewing of Digital Aerial Photographs in Tropical Seasonal Forest

The objectives of this study are to: (1) evaluate accuracy of tree height measurements of manual stereo viewing on a computer display using digital aerial photographs compared with airborne LiDAR height measurements; and (2) develop an empirical model to estimate stand-level aboveground biomass with variables derived from manual stereo viewing on the computer display in a Cambodian tropical sea...

Estimation of tropical rain forest aboveground biomass with small-footprint lidar and hyperspectral sensors

Impact of spatial variability of tropical forest structure on radar estimation of aboveground biomass

a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA b Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA d International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri, USA e Dep. of Natural Resource Ecology, and Management...