Individual tree- and shrub-level aboveground biomass mapped across multiple NEON sites. Left: Site-level maps. Center: ortho-imagery for context. Right: crown-level aboveground biomass.

High-resolution aboveground biomass mapping - uncertainty and quantification

In projects funded by Google and NASA, we are building data products and processing frameworks for benchmarking satellite-based aboveground biomass products using airborne lidar, statistical modeling, and field-based forestry. These data products will sharpen our understanding of carbon budgets and which ecosystems are most significant for these budgets. We are also building frameworks for propagating uncertainty from allometry to satellite-pixels.