Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit 
estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

Santoro, Maurizio; Beaudoin, André; Beer, Christian; Cartus, Oliver; Fransson, Johan E.S.; Hall, Ronald J.; Pathe, Carsten; Schmullius, Christiane; Schepaschenko, Dmitry; Shvidenko, Anatoly; Thurner, Martin; Wegmüller, Urs

doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.005

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Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

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Thurner, Martin
Department Biogeochemical Integration, Dr. M. Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Santoro, M., Beaudoin, A., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Fransson, J. E., Hall, R. J., et al. (2015). Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 168, 316-334. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.005.

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This paper presents and assesses spatially explicit estimates of forest growing stock volume (GSV) of the northern hemisphere (north of 10°N) from hyper-temporal observations of Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) backscattered intensity using the BIOMASAR algorithm. Approximately 70,000 ASAR images at a pixel size of 0.01° were used to estimate GSV representative for the year 2010. The spatial distribution of the GSV across four ecological zones (polar, boreal, temperate, subtropical) was well captured by the ASAR-based estimates. The uncertainty of the retrieved GSV was smallest in boreal and temperate forest (< 30% for approximately 80% of the forest area) and largest in subtropical forest. ASAR-derived GSV averages at the level of administrative units were mostly in agreement with inventory-derived estimates. Underestimation occurred in regions of very high GSV (> 300 m3/ha) and fragmented forest landscapes. For the major forested countries within the study region, the relative RMSE between ASAR-derived GSV averages at provincial level and corresponding values from National Forest Inventory was between 12% and 45% (average: 29%).