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Review and Comparative Analysis of Forest Biomass Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Data: from Five Different Perspectives  

Cho, Kyung-Hun (연세대학교 토목환경공학과)
Heo, Joon (연세대학교 토목환경공학과)
Jung, Jae-Hoon (연세대학교 토목환경공학과)
Kim, Chang-Jae (연세대학교 건설공학연구소)
Kim, Kyung-Min (국립산림과학원 산림자원정보과)
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Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science / v.19, no.1, 2011 , pp. 87-96 More about this Journal
Abstract
Carbon emissions and storages that are strongly related to global warming has have emerged as one of the important issues while many governments and researchers have been interested in climate change and pollution. In this regards, forest biomass estimation is quite importance since forest biomass works as an important medium of the global carbon cycle between the atmosphere and soil. Forest biomass estimation through field survey needs lots of time and labors, and has accessibility issues. Hence, many researchers have focused on the forest biomass approaches based on remotely sensed data. This research comprehensively reviewed forty one international studies using remote sensing data according to five different categories (i.e., location of study area, size of study area, biome, used remote sensing data, and estimation technology). It would be expected that the results of this study can be used for suggesting domestic research directions; domestic research in this field is at the beginning stage in terms of level of technologies and useful materials. As results, 39% out of the reviewed studies used the areas located in North America. 59% out of the researches dealt with small size of the study areas (less than 3,600km2). In case of biome, around 30% of the studies focused on the boreal/taiga areas. Moreover, 35% and 16% of the studies were carried out using Landsat series and Lidar data, respectively. Finally, regression analysis method was most frequently used for forest biomass estimation by 71% out of 41 studies.
Keywords
Global Warming; Forest Biomass; Remote Sensing;
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