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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
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2021-05-14T13:03:44
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 653fdd814dba4103a301221955781e35
Author
  Unavailable - Rodriguez-Veiga, Pedro ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Balzter, Heiko ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Ndambiri, Jamleck ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - principal_investigator
Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom
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  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • NCEO
  • AGB
  • Biomass
  • Kenya
  • forest
  • vegetated wetlands
  • wooded grassland
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2015-01-01T00:00:00
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2015-01-31T00:00:00
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  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Chave et al., 2005. Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

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Pekel et al., 2016. High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature, 540, 418-422

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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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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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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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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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2010-12-08
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National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) Core datasets 82b29f96b8c94db28ecc51a479f8c9c6
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2025-11-15T03:21:15
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
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