A method to estimate forest biomass and its application to monitor Mongolian Taiga using AVHRR and Vegetation

Author

Tsolmon, R. ; Tateishi, R. ; Javzandulam, Ts ; Aban, J.E.

Author_Institution

Center for Environ. Remote Sensing, Chiba Univ., Japan

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2909

Abstract

This study reported the potential approach of the modeling to estimate boreal forest above ground biomass using NDVI in the northern region of Mongolia. The regional relationships between the satellite-derived NDVI and annual mean climatologically parameters (temperature and precipitation) between the years 1995-2000 in the growth season were carried out for the model development. In order to develop algorithms for estimating woody stand biomass, regional coefficients of the forest which are taken from inventory data, were considered. The woody biomass of 3547.5 thousand hectares (ha) of boreal and temperate forests in Mongolian northern part, was estimated from NOAA/AVHRR and SPOT-4/Vegetation data. Analytical model test indicated that it can be, used to analyze between-year differences in biomass carbon pool change.

Keywords

forestry; vegetation mapping; AD 1995 to 2000; AVHRR data; Mongolia; Mongolian Taiga; SPOT-4/Vegetation data; annual mean climatological parameters; biomass carbon pool change; boreal forest; forest biomass; growth season; precipitation; satellite-derived NDVI; temperature; woody stand biomass; Analytical models; Biomass; Lakes; Land surface temperature; Ocean temperature; Remote monitoring; Soil moisture; Temperature sensors; Testing; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026818

Filename

1026818