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Forest Carbon Monitoring
Coverage from Utah, Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), and others
Forest carbon monitoring combines satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR, drones, forest inventories, and modeling to estimate how much carbon is stored in forests and how those stocks change.
Work in this area includes high-resolution biomass maps, long-term datasets, burned-area products, and validation of competing measurement approaches. Examples range from Arctic and boreal monitoring under NASA’s ABoVE campaign to ForestScan measurements in tropical forests and Rhode Island’s use of remote sensing in official greenhouse-gas accounting. These tools help researchers and public agencies assess disturbance impacts and improve carbon inventories.
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University of Utah biologists Wanwan Liang and Jon Wang release and assess Arctic-boreal biomass datasets in 2026 to improve carbon storage and carbon accounting under rapid northern warming.
5/27/2026 • Climate Science & Impacts • General
ORNL DAAC released ABBA burned area dataset mapping circumpolar boreal forests and tundra for 2002 through 2022.
2/25/2026 • Climate Science & Impacts • General
University of Utah researchers Liang and Wang published March and April 2026 studies to improve Arctic and boreal biomass mapping for better carbon accounting in Alaska and Canada.
6/1/2026 • Climate Science & Impacts • General
Rhode Island and the University of Maryland will use NASA Carbon Monitoring System modeling to estimate forest and urban tree carbon at 30-meter resolution for the state greenhouse gas inventory.
5/22/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
UCL researchers measure tropical forest biomass with ForestScan at Paracou, Lopé National Park, and Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve to improve carbon storage estimates and satellite mapping as part of GEO-TREES.
2/24/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General