Title:
Developing a Spatially-Explicit Pan-European Dataset of Forest Biomass Increment
Author(s):
Busetto, L., Barredo, J.I., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Among the services provided by forest ecosystems, biomass is one of the most important. Nevertheless, spatially explicit data on forest biomass increment is rarely available for large regions. Thus the aim of this study is to develop a methodology for the spatial assessment of forest biomass increment at the panEuropean level. To address this aim, we used MODIS GPP data (NASA Product MOD17A3) adjusted with GPP data derived from upscaling FLUXNET observations using the Model Tree Ensemble (MTE) technique (Jung et al., 2011) to derive a 1 km resolution woody biomass increment map. The map was validated using regional information from the most recent publicly available National Forest Inventories data of several European countries, highlighting a good agreement between estimated and observed data. The resulting map is a useful baseline for a number of applications dealing with potential supply of energy from forests in Europe, including mobilisation scenarios that consider current environmental, technical and social constraints.
Keywords:
bioenergy, biomass, modelling, timber
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Biomass potentials and biomass mobilisation
Event:
22nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1AO.8.1
Pages:
41 - 46
ISBN:
978-88-89407-52-3
Paper DOI:
10.5071/22ndEUBCE2014-1AO.8.1
Price:
FREE
