Estimates of forest biomass are needed for various technical and scientific applications,
ranging from carbon and bioenergy policies to sustainable forest management. As local …

Many biologists, ecologists, and conservationists are interested in the possibilities that
remote sensing offers for their daily work and study site analyses as well as for the …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Aim To infer a forest carbon density map at 0.01° resolution from a radar remote sensing
product for the estimation of carbon stocks in Northern Hemisphere boreal and temperate …

The face of our planet is changing at an unprecedented rate. Forest ecosystems diminish at
alarming speed, urban and agricultural areas expand into the surrounding natural space …

As a large carbon pool, global forest ecosystems are a critical component of the global
carbon cycle. Accurate estimations of global forest aboveground biomass (AGB) can …

Carbon sequestration service of Mediterranean forest and other wooded land is threatened
by their fragile, complex, and highly evolving nature, due to both human disturbances and …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review presents cutting-edge methods and current and
forthcoming satellite remote sensing technologies to map aboveground biomass (AGB) …

A method for regional scale map** of aboveground forest biomass with Advanced Land
Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) …

This data set is the first-of-its-kind spatial representation of multi-seasonal, global C-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometric repeat-pass coherence and backscatter …