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NCEO Kenya forest aboveground biomass map 2015 v21.0
The NCEO Kenya forest aboveground biomass map shows aboveground woody biomass (AGB) in Kenyan forests. Forest areas include vegetated wetlands and wooded grassland for the year 2015. The map was generated by combining field inventory plots (KFS) with Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-2), Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR-2) and multispectral optical data (NASA Landsat 8), by means of a Random Forests algorithm within a k-Fold calibration/validation framework.
The characterization of carbon stocks and dynamics at the national level is critical for countries engaging in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, several tropical countries, including Kenya, lack the essential information typically provided by a complete national forest inventory. These data were produced by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Leicester, in collaboration with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) with funding from the NCEO ODA Programme.
Known Issues: Residual scan line corrector (SLC) effects due to the use of the SLEEK land cover product as a retrieval mask (derived from Landsat imagery) are visible in some areas
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-05-14T13:03:44
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-05-14T13:03:44
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Unavailable
Rodriguez-Veiga, Pedro
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Balzter, Heiko
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Ndambiri, Jamleck
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Principal investigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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NCEO
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AGB
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Biomass
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Kenya
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forest
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vegetated wetlands
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wooded grassland
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2015-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2015-01-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version GeoTiff
Pixel type: unsigned integer
Pixel Depth: 16 Bit NoData Value: 65535
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/nceo_biomass_maps/data/kenya/v21.0/2015/ DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-005-0100-x Chave et al., 2005. Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20584 Pekel et al., 2016. High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature, 540, 418-422
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425711001337?via%3Dihub Mitchard et al., 2011. Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest–savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2861-287
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Protocol Linkage Name https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2003.1425 Chave et al., 2004. Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 359, 409-420,
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Protocol Linkage Name https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/11/6827/2014/ Réjou-Méchain et al., 2014. Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences, 11
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.pnas.org/content/108/24/9899 Saatchi et al., 2011. Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 9899-9904
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Conformance result
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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
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Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Metadata
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- 653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- UTF8
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National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) Core datasets
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- Date stamp
- 2026-02-08T03:23:15
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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