Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045011
Keywords
biomass; carbon; MODIS; lidar; GLAS; regression tree; Random Forest; REDD
Funding
- NASA [NNG05GD14G, NNS06AA06A]
- Roger and Victoria Sant
- Joseph Gleberman
- Linden Trust for Conservation
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Observations from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) were used in combination with a large data set of field measurements to map woody above-ground biomass (AGB) across tropical Africa. We generated a best-quality cloud-free mosaic of MODIS satellite reflectance observations for the period 2000-2003 and used a regression tree model to predict AGB at 1 km resolution. Results based on a cross-validation approach show that the model explained 82% of the variance in AGB, with a root mean square error of 50.5 Mg ha(-1) for a range of biomass between 0 and 454 Mg ha(-1). Analysis of lidar metrics from the Geoscience Laser Altimetry System (GLAS), which are sensitive to vegetation structure, indicate that the model successfully captured the regional distribution of AGB. The results showed a strong positive correlation (R-2 = 0.90) between the GLAS height metrics and predicted AGB.
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