These are the days of lasers in the jungle

Joseph Mascaro; Gregory P. Asner; Stuart Davies; Alex Dehgan; Sassan Saatchi

doi:10.1186/s13021-014-0007-0

These are the days of lasers in the jungle

Joseph Mascaro, Gregory P. Asner, Stuart Davies, Alex Dehgan, Sassan Saatchi

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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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-014-0007-0
State	Published - Sep 3 2014
Externally published	Yes

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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