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  4. Biomass/Remote Sensing dataset: 30m resolution tidal marsh biomass samples and remote sensing data for six regions in the conterminous United States

Biomass/Remote Sensing dataset: 30m resolution tidal marsh biomass samples and remote sensing data for six regions in the conterminous United States

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1997
End Date
2015

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Byrd, K.B., Ballanti, L.R., Thomas, N.M., Nguyen, D.K., Holmquist, J.R., Simard, M., Windham-Myers, L., Schile, L.M., Parker, V.T., Callaway, J.C., Vasey, M.C., Herbert, E.R., Davis, M.J., Woo, I., De La Cruz, S., Kroeger, K.D., Gonneea, M.E., O'Keefe Suttles, J., Megonigal, J.P., Lu, M., McFarland, E.K., Brooks, H.E.A., Drake, B.G., Peresta, G., Peresta, A., Troxler, T., and Castaneda-Moya, E., 2017, Tidal marsh biomass field plot and remote sensing datasets for six regions in the conterminous United States (ver. 2.0, June, 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90PG34S.

Summary

Remote sensing based maps of tidal marshes, both of their extents and carbon stocks, have the potential to play a key role in conducting greenhouse gas inventories and implementing climate mitigation policies. Our objective was to generate a single remote sensing model of tidal marsh aboveground biomass and carbon that represents nationally diverse tidal marshes within the conterminous United States (CONUS). To meet this objective we developed the first national-scale dataset of aboveground tidal marsh biomass, species composition, and aboveground plant carbon content (%C) from six CONUS regions: Cape Cod, MA, Chesapeake Bay, MD, Everglades, FL, Mississippi Delta, LA, San Francisco Bay, CA, and Puget Sound, WA. We tested how plant [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kristin B Byrd, U.S. Geological Survey, SOUTHWEST REGION
Originator :
Kristin Byrd, Laurel Ballanti, Nathan Thomas, Dung Nguyen, James R. Holmquist, Marc Simard, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Lisa Schile, V. Thomas Parker, John C. Callaway, Michael C. Vasey, Ellen R. Herbert, Melanie Davis, Isa Woo, Susan De La Cruz, Kevin Kroeger, Meagan Gonneea, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Patrick Megonigal, Meng Lu, Liza McFarland, Hope Brooks, Bert Drake, Gary Peresta, Andrew Peresta, Tiffany Troxler, Edward Castaneda
Metadata Contact :
Kristin B Byrd, U.S. Geological Survey, SOUTHWEST REGION
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

Data were obtained in order to assess how plant community composition and vegetation structure differences across estuaries influence model development, and whether data from multiple sensors, in particular Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar and Landsat, can improve model performance.

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