The use of airborne laser scanning to develop a pixel-based stratification for a verified carbon offset project |
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Authors: | Jordan Golinkoff Mark Hanus Jennifer Carah |
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Affiliation: | (1) The Conservation Fund, 14951 “A” Caspar Road, Box 50, Caspar, CA 95420, USA;(2) GeoDigital International, McMaster Innovation Park, 175 Longwood Road South, Suite 400A, Hamilton, ON, L8P 0A1, Canada;(3) The Nature Conservancy, California Regional Office, 201 Mission St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA |
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Abstract: | Background The voluntary carbon market is a new and growing market that is increasingly important to consider in managing forestland. Monitoring, reporting, and verifying carbon stocks and fluxes at a project level is the single largest direct cost of a forest carbon offset project. There are now many methods for estimating forest stocks with high accuracy that use both Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and high-resolution optical remote sensing data. However, many of these methods are not appropriate for use under existing carbon offset standards and most have not been field tested. |
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