Aboveground biomass dataset from SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth and reference maps

Boitard, Simon; Mialon, Arnaud; Mermoz, Stéphane; Rodríguez-Fernández, Nemesio J.; Richaume, Philippe; Salazar-Neira, Julio César; Tarot, Stéphane; Kerr, Yann H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1101-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1101-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1101-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

Data description paper

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17 Mar 2025

Data description paper |

| 17 Mar 2025

Aboveground biomass dataset from SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth and reference maps

Simon Boitard, Arnaud Mialon, Stéphane Mermoz, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Philippe Richaume, Julio César Salazar-Neira, Stéphane Tarot, and Yann H. Kerr

Data sets

Above ground biomass dataset from SMOS L band vegetation optical depth and reference maps, [Data set] Simon Boitard et al. https://doi.org/10.12770/95f76ff0-5d89-430d-80db-95fbdd77f543

Index of /cecsm/Land_products/L4_Above_Ground_Biomass Simon Boitard et al. https://data.catds.fr/cecsm/Land_products/L4_Above_Ground_Biomass/

Short summary

Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a critical component of the Earth's carbon cycle. The presented dataset aims to help monitor this essential climate variable with AGB time series from 2011 onward, derived with a carefully calibrated spatial relationship between the measurements of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission and pre-existing AGB maps. The produced dataset has been extensively compared with other available AGB time series and can be used in AGB studies.