Implications of allometric model selection for county-level biomass mapping

Abstract Background Carbon accounting in forests remains a large area of uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Forest aboveground biomass is therefore an attribute of great interest for the forest management community, but the accuracy of aboveground biomass maps depends on the accuracy of the und...

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Main Authors: Laura Duncanson, Wenli Huang, Kristofer Johnson, Anu Swatantran, Ronald E. McRoberts, Ralph Dubayah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Carbon Balance and Management
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13021-017-0086-9