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Table 5 Approaches to mapping AGB of the Brazilian Amazon

From: Evaluating spatial coverage of data on the aboveground biomass in undisturbed forests in the Brazilian Amazon

AGB maps

Approaches to mapping carbon stocks

General description

Nogueira et al. [34]

Stratify and multiply

Assign an average AGB value to land cover/vegetation type map

MCT 2010 [15]

Mitchard et al. [22]

MCT [6]

Saatchi et al. [18]

Direct remote sensing

Empirical models where remote sensing data are calibrated to field estimates

Baccini et al. [33]

Avitabile et al. [35]

  1. The general approaches to mapping AGB are described according to Goetz et al. [72]