The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

Santoro, Maurizio; Cartus, Oliver; Carvalhais, Nuno; Rozendaal, Danaë M. A.; Avitabile, Valerio; Araza, Arnan; de Bruin, Sytze; Herold, Martin; Quegan, Shaun; Rodríguez-Veiga, Pedro; Balzter, Heiko; Carreiras, João; Schepaschenko, Dmitry; Korets, Mikhail; Shimada, Masanobu; Itoh, Takuya; Moreno Martínez, Álvaro; Cavlovic, Jura; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna; Dewnath, Nasheta; Labrière, Nicolas; Liang, Jingjing; Lindsell, Jeremy; Mitchard, Edward T. A.; Morel, Alexandra; Pacheco Pascagaza, Ana Maria; Ryan, Casey M.; Slik, Ferry; Vaglio Laurin, Gaia; Verbeeck, Hans; Wijaya, Arief; Willcock, Simon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Data description paper

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11 Aug 2021

Data description paper |

| 11 Aug 2021

The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Nuno Carvalhais, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Valerio Avitabile, Arnan Araza, Sytze de Bruin, Martin Herold, Shaun Quegan, Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga, Heiko Balzter, João Carreiras, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Mikhail Korets, Masanobu Shimada, Takuya Itoh, Álvaro Moreno Martínez, Jura Cavlovic, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Nasheta Dewnath, Nicolas Labrière, Jingjing Liang, Jeremy Lindsell, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Alexandra Morel, Ana Maria Pacheco Pascagaza, Casey M. Ryan, Ferry Slik, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Hans Verbeeck, Arief Wijaya, and Simon Willcock

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SC1: 'Forest biomass', Andrii Bilous, 10 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on SC1', Maurizio Santoro, 13 Jan 2021
SC2: 'Spatial autocorrelations in the AGB data', Maksym Matsala, 14 Nov 2020
- AC5: 'Reply on SC2', Maurizio Santoro, 18 Jan 2021
SC3: 'Can polarimetric SAR data help further improve biomass estimation from space?', Ake Rosenqvist, 02 Dec 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on SC3', Maurizio Santoro, 13 Jan 2021
SC4: 'Biomass Expansion Factors', Richard Lucas, 04 Dec 2020
- AC6: 'Reply on SC4', Maurizio Santoro, 18 Jan 2021
SC5: 'Selection of global biomass products', Richard Lucas, 04 Dec 2020
- AC3: 'Reply on SC5', Maurizio Santoro, 13 Jan 2021
SC6: 'Future reference', Jan Joseph Dida, 04 Dec 2020
- AC4: 'Reply on SC6', Maurizio Santoro, 13 Jan 2021
SC7: 'Accuracy and validation', Mihai Tanase, 04 Dec 2020
- AC7: 'Reply on SC7', Maurizio Santoro, 18 Jan 2021
SC8: 'Comment / Query', Peter Bunting, 04 Dec 2020
- AC8: 'Reply on SC8', Maurizio Santoro, 18 Jan 2021
SC9: 'Possible regional comparison citation', Seth Spawn, 04 Feb 2021
RC1: 'Review of Santoro et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 May 2021
RC2: 'Referee comment of essd-2020-148', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jun 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Maurizio Santoro on behalf of the Authors (17 Jun 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Jun 2021) by Kirsten Elger

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (18 Jun 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 Jun 2021) by Kirsten Elger

AR by Maurizio Santoro on behalf of the Authors (22 Jun 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Jun 2021) by Kirsten Elger

AR by Maurizio Santoro on behalf of the Authors (01 Jul 2021) Manuscript

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Forests play a crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle. To understand the carbon cycle better, we generated a global dataset of forest above-ground biomass, i.e. carbon stocks, from satellite data of 2010. This dataset provides a comprehensive and detailed portrait of the distribution of carbon in forests, although for dense forests in the tropics values are somewhat underestimated. This dataset will have a considerable impact on climate, carbon, and socio-economic modelling schemes.