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Xiuyu Cao, Joseph O. Sexton, Panshi Wang, Dimitrios Gounaridis, Neil H. Carter, Kai Zhu
An independent academic validation of the commercial 30-meter, annual, wall-to-wall aboveground biomass density (AGBD) product from terraPulse demonstrates strong agreement with U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. The study establishes a robust, scalable framework for validating dynamic remote sensing biomass products against ground-based measurements, effectively accounting for FIA data's spatial uncertainty.
Key insights
- Independent validation by an academic institution for a commercial remote sensing product significantly enhances its scientific credibility and trustworthiness for a broad range of stakeholders.
- Aggregating field inventory data to coarser spatial units (e.g., hexagons, counties) effectively addresses the challenge of spatial uncertainty, making such data a viable and powerful reference for validating wall-to-wall remote sensing products.
- Remotely sensed biomass products can exhibit systematic biases, such as overestimation in low-biomass non-forest areas (due to wall-to-wall coverage) and underestimation in very high-biomass dense forests (likely due to optical signal saturation).
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