no code implementations • 5 Apr 2023 • Lucas K. Johnson, Michael J. Mahoney, Madeleine L. Desrochers, Colin M. Beier
Understanding historical forest dynamics, specifically changes in forest biomass and carbon stocks, has become critical for assessing current forest climate benefits and projecting future benefits under various policy, regulatory, and stewardship scenarios.
no code implementations • 17 May 2022 • Lucas K. Johnson, Michael J. Mahoney, Eddie Bevilacqua, Stephen V. Stehman, Grant Domke, Colin M. Beier
Here, as part of a statewide forest carbon assessment for New York State (USA), we addressed common obstacles in leveraging a LiDAR patchwork for AGB mapping at landscape scales, including selection of training data, the investigation of regional or coverage specific patterns in prediction error, and map agreement with field inventory across multiple scales.
