Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.475..205w&link_type=abstract
In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Appl
Statistics
Applications
Process Modelling
Scientific paper
Stirred by raising concerns about potentially harmful impacts of global change and by the long political struggle around the Kyoto-Protocol, scientists have started to explore the mechanisms of the global carbon cycle in more depth. Often the magnitude of carbon fluxes and carbon pools is not sufficiently well known due to the lack of environmental data. Therefore new methods to collect relevant biogeophysical parameters are urgently needed. Such data will be useful for monitoring land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities specified in the Kyoto-Protocol and for improving our understanding of the global carbon cycle and its feedback mechanisms with changing climate patterns in general. This article discusses relevant aspects of the Kyoto-Protocol and monitoring requirements. For clarity, it is suggested to distinguish two sets of requirements: 1) requirements arising from the "Kyoto" reporting guidelines, and 2) requirements arising from the scientific need to better quantify the global carbon balance. These provide the framework for discussing the potential use of radar remote sensing. This article further elaborates the arguments first resented in Wagner (2001).
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