Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 7 |
| Journal | Carbon Balance and Management |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Sep 3 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
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These are the days of lasers in the jungle. / Mascaro, Joseph; Asner, Gregory P.; Davies, Stuart; Dehgan, Alex; Saatchi, Sassan.
In: Carbon Balance and Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, 7, 03.09.2014.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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PY - 2014/9/3
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N2 - 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.
AB - 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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