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Radar backscatter is not a 'direct measure' of forest biomass

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Accurately mapping forest carbon now has important financial and livelihood implications for many smallholder farmers, businesses, investors, land-use projects and governments. The urgent need to reduce uncertainties in the carbon cycle, the increasing focus on global sustainable forestry, and the international agenda on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has led to the creation of new communities clamouring for robust methods to map forest aboveground biomass (AGB).

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    Iain H. Woodhouse, Edward T. A Mitchard & Casey M. Ryan

  2. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, Maryland, USA

    Matthew Brolly

  3. Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, UN-REDD Programme, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00153, Italy

    Danae Maniatis

  4. Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK

    Danae Maniatis

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Woodhouse, I., Mitchard, E., Brolly, M. et al. Radar backscatter is not a 'direct measure' of forest biomass. Nature Clim Change 2, 556–557 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1601

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