From: Mapping data gaps to estimate biomass across Brazilian Amazon forests
Map | Scale | Spatial resolution | Temporal scale (year) | Field forest plots/ source | Study area plots/ sampled area (ha) | Remote Sensing products/ other inputs | Model |
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Saatchi et al. (2011) | Pantropical | 1 km | 2000 | 4079b (493 for calibration)/ Many sources | ~ 707/ ~1770d | MODIS (NDVI, LAI, % tree cover), LiDAR from GLAS/Forest height map | MaxEnt |
Baccini et al. (2012) | Pantropical | 500 m | 2007–2008 | 283b/ Measured | No Data | MODIS, LiDAR from GLAS, SRTM | Random Forest |
Nogueira et al. (2015) | Brazilian Amazon | 1 km (landscape level) | 1970a | 2317c/ RadamBrasil and literature | 2373/ 2317 | No/ Vegetation map (SIVAM 2002) | None |
MCT (2016) | Brazilian Amazon | 1 km (landscape level) | 1973–1983a | 1682 plots/ RadamBrasil | 1682/ 1682 | Inverse distance weighting | |
Avitabile et al. (2016) | Pantropical | 1 km | 2000–2013a | 648/ RAINFOR, TEAM and Sustainable Landscapes | ~ 500/ No data | No/ High-resolution AGB maps | Fusion model |