Applications of Remote Sensing Data in Mapping of Forest Growing Stock and Biomass

Dear Colleagues,

Forested areas and stock biomass are of interest in a climatic change scenario and increasing carbon emission. Forest canopy plays an important role in ecosystem services that can provide soil protecting against erosion, a water management cycle, biomass production, and carbon stock.

Regular forested area surveys for biophysical measurements and inventory are time-consuming and very expensive. Thus, remote sensing can be a very important and useful tool in the cartography of the forested areas along the past, in canopy changes analysis and in biophysical variables modeling, such as canopy density, basal area growing, and biomass stocking. Based on satellite image bands, it is possible to derive vegetation indices and allometric models to estimate forest cover characteristics and variations in the amount of biomass.

At present, several spatial agencies provide regular and free satellite images with high quality and resolution across almost all continents and countries. Due to improvements in technology that are followed by price reduction, local imagery capture is increasingly accessible to researchers, giving them autonomy to develop and share a wide variety of projects.

We would like to invite you to contribute with your work for the Special Issue: Applications of Remote Sensing Data in Mapping of Forest Growing Stock and Biomass.

Dr. José Aranha
Guest Editor

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