These are the days of lasers in the jungle

For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land...

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Autores principales: Mascaro, Joseph, Asner, Gregory P, Davies, Stuart, Dehgan, Alex, Saatchi, Sassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25187789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-014-0007-0
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author Mascaro, Joseph
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description For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land in the tropics. We believe such a database could be assembled for only 5% of funding already pledged to offset tropical forest carbon emissions.
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spelling pubmed-41527652014-09-04 These are the days of lasers in the jungle Mascaro, Joseph Asner, Gregory P Davies, Stuart Dehgan, Alex Saatchi, Sassan Carbon Balance Manag Commentary For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land in the tropics. We believe such a database could be assembled for only 5% of funding already pledged to offset tropical forest carbon emissions. BioMed Central 2014-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4152765/ /pubmed/25187789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-014-0007-0 Text en Copyright © 2014 Mascaro et al.; licensee Springer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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