CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

The importance of consistent global forest aboveground biomass product validation

L Duncanson, J Armston, M Disney, V Avitabile… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Several upcoming satellite missions have core science requirements to produce data for
accurate forest aboveground biomass map**. Largely because of these mission datasets …

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

SJ Davies, I Abiem, KA Salim, S Aguilar, D Allen… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Global importance of large‐diameter trees

JA Lutz, TJ Furniss, DJ Johnson… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century …

[HTML][HTML] An above-ground biomass map of African savannahs and woodlands at 25 m resolution derived from ALOS PALSAR

A Bouvet, S Mermoz, T Le Toan, L Villard… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Savannahs and woodlands are among the most important biomes in Africa: they cover half
of sub-Saharan Africa, provide vital ecosystem services to the rural communities, and play a …

GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space

R Dubayah, J Armston, SP Healey… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass stocks is required to assess the impacts
of land use changes such as deforestation and subsequent regrowth on concentrations of …

Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands

M Brandt, JP Wigneron, J Chave, T Tagesson… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The African continent is facing one of the driest periods in the past three decades as well as
continued deforestation. These disturbances threaten vegetation carbon (C) stocks and …

Evaluating and mitigating the impact of systematic geolocation error on canopy height measurement performance of GEDI

H Tang, J Stoker, S Luthcke, J Armston, K Lee… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is designed to provide
high-resolution measurements of forest structure and topography between 52° N and S …

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 …

An evaluation of eight machine learning regression algorithms for forest aboveground biomass estimation from multiple satellite data products

Y Zhang, J Ma, S Liang, X Li, M Li - Remote sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study provided a comprehensive evaluation of eight machine learning regression
algorithms for forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation from satellite data based on …