Table 4 Relationships between the environmental factors and AGB maps
From: Mapping data gaps to estimate biomass across Brazilian Amazon forests
Environmental factor | Maps | Saatchi et al. (2011) | Baccini et al. (2012) | Nogueira et al. (2015) | MCT (2016) | Avitabile et al. (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vegetation | Vegetation map of Brazil (IBGE and USGS 1992) | I: Both used satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | D: Avitabile et al. (2016) combine Saatchi et al. (2011) and Baccini et al. (2012), having relation with the maps that they used. | ||
Vegetation map (SIVAM 2002) | I: Both used satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | D: Nogueira et al. (2015) used this map | |||
Vegetation map of Brazil (IBGE 2004b) | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: the MCT 2010 vegetation map, used this map | |||
Brazilian biomes vegetation cover (MMA 2006a) | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: the MCT 2010 vegetation map, used this map | |||
Vegetation physiognomies of Brazil (MCT 2010) | D: MCT (2016) used this map | |||||
Soils | Soil map of Brazil (IBGE 2001) | |||||
Soils of Legal Amazon (MMA 2006b) | ||||||
Soil carbon stocks (Bernoux et al. 2002) | ||||||
Soil map (Quesada et al. 2011) | ||||||
Climate | Water deficit (Fonseca et al. 2016) | |||||
Climate map of Brazil (IBGE 2002a) | ||||||
Topography | Relief map 2002 (IBGE 2002b) | |||||
Relief units map of Brazil (IBGE 2006) | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | ||||
Geomorphology of the Legal Amazon (MMA 2006b) | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images | I: Both used SRTM, and satellite images |