Detail of a dataset for French Guiana that estimates the aboveground live woody vegetation carbon density from multi-sensor satellite data in 2012.

The dataset estimates the carbon density (Mg C ha−1) of aboveground live woody vegetation for the pan-tropics (including tropical Africa, America and Asia) at a spatial resolution of 500 m using a combination of remote sensing and field data (for the period 2007–2008). Specifically, we used satellite-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data acquired at a nominal spatial resolution of 70 m together with 500 m multispectral surface reflectance imagery and other geospatial data layers.

Date (Creation): 2012-01-29

Identifier: CEBA_biomass2012

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Woods Hole Research Center - Baccini, Alessandro

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes

Orthoimagery

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

remote sensing
satellite image
deforestation

Geounits

South America
Americas
France
French Guiana

Keywords

national coverage
labex CEBA
portail Ca-SIF

Theme

carbon stocks
carbon emission
above ground biomass

Place

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Access constraints: Intellectual property rights

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 500 m

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2007-01-01

End date: 2008-12-31

Supplemental Information: Bibliography: Baccini, A., S.J. Goetz, W.S. Walker, N.T. Laporte, M. Sun, D. Sulla-Menashe, J. Hackler, P.S.A. Beck, R. Dubayah, M.A. Friedl, S. Samanta, and R.A. Houghton. 2012. Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps. Nature Climate Change 2:182-185.