ESA Biomass Climate Change Initiative (Biomass_cci): Global datasets of forest above-ground biomass for the years 2010, 2017 and 2018, v3

This dataset comprises estimates of forest above-ground biomass for the years 2010, 2017 and 2018. They are derived from a combination of Earth observation data, depending on the year, from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, Envisat’s ASAR instrument and JAXA’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-1 and ALOS-2), along with additional information from Earth observation sources. The data has been produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme by the Biomass CCI team.

This release of the data is version 3. Compared to version 2, this is a consolidated version of the Above Ground Biomass (AGB) maps. This version also includes a preliminary estimate of AGB changes for two epochs.

The data products consist of two (2) global layers that include estimates of:

1) above ground biomass (AGB, unit: tons/ha i.e., Mg/ha) (raster dataset). This is defined as the mass, expressed as oven-dry weight of the woody parts (stem, bark, branches and twigs) of all living trees excluding stump and roots

2) per-pixel estimates of above-ground biomass uncertainty expressed as the standard deviation in Mg/ha (raster dataset)

In addition, files describing the AGB change between 2018 and the other two years are provided (labelled as 2018_2010 and 2018_2017). These consist of two sets of maps: the standard deviation of the AGB change and a quality flag of the AGB change. Note that the change itself can be simply computed as the difference between two AGB maps, so is not provided directly.

Data are provided in both netcdf and geotiff format.

Date (Publication): 2021-11-25T12:12:01

Date (Creation): 2021-11-25T12:12:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f331c418e9f4935b8eb1b836f8a91b8

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 5f331c418e9f4935b8eb1b836f8a91b8

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/5f331c418e9f4935b8eb1b836f8a91b8

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Santoro, Maurizio	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Cartus, Oliver	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ESA
CCI
Biomass

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_biomass_terms_and_conditions_v2.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2010-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2020-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are netCDF and geotiff formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f331c418e9f4935b8eb1b836f8a91b8	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/biomass/data/agb/maps/v3.0/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/biomass/	ESA CCI Biomass project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/biomass/key-documents/	Project documentation for Biomass CCI

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/documents/1484/D4.3_CCI_PUG_V3.0_20210707.pdf	Product User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/documents/1485/D2_2_Algorithm_Theoretical_Basis_Document_ATBD_V3.0_20210614_hkrml_SQ_MS.pdf	Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data was created by the Biomass CCI team.

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Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-08T03:23:13

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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