This projects aims to couple satellite- derived deforestation maps with in situ measurements of biomass and soil organic matter in a uncoupled numerical carbon model to estimate the net flux of greenhouse gases. This project uses the Radam dataset to construct a carbon vegetation and soil map for the basin, and uses Pathfinder results to estimate the net flux.
New work is underway to include the role of secondary growth.
An outline of this project is available on a separate page. This project also supports research in the Monitoring LUCC and Causes of LUCC themes. This proposal will develop regional research concerning the dynamics of land use and cover change in Southeast Asia in collaboration with a team of regional scientists who have been working together since 1993. This work will help empirical diagnostic models of deforestation which improve terrestrial ecosystem and carbon cycle models. It will also elucidate the cause of dampened biogenic source terms observed in inter-annual measurements of atmospheric CO 2 and O 2 for the tropics, and thus the role of land use change as a missing sink for carbon.