Cmonster - Carbon Monitoring for Wooded Ecosystems

Project summary

In this project, we are building an integrated system to monitor carbon dynamics for all forests and woodlands of Washington, Oregon, and California. The system will improve understanding of the patterns, causes, and carbon consequences of forest dynamics over areas large enough to 1) directly address fundamental science questions, and 2) evaluate the actual history of forest management across a range of ownerships, forest types, and climatic conditions. The system will be designed to accommodate new or improved tools, algorithms, and data as they become available, and will explicitly provide estimates of uncertainty in carbon pools and fluxes to independently evaluate the significance of trends across space and time.

The GNN mapping component of the monitoring system, which will include several variations of GNN maps of biomass and carbon as well as an assessment of uncertainty based on these realizations, will be applied for imagery years 1990 to 2010. Additional funding has allowed us to extend the GNN mapping through 2012 for Washington and Oregon, but for only one version of the GNN models.

GNN Map Products for CMONster

From the CMONster project, we are providing a single version of the GNN species-size models and associated map products. To download GNN map products, visit the data download page. The most current versions of the GNN maps are provided, and these maps replace all previous versions of GNN species-size maps.

Collaborators and Support

Research collaborators included Robert Kennedy, Boston University; Van Kane, University of Washington; Scott Powell, Montana State University; Warren Cohen, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Yang Zhiqiang, Oregon State University; the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNW), USDA Forest Service; and Andrew Gray (PNW FIA). The research was supported by a grant under the Carbon Cycle Science NASA-NIFA-FS ROSES Solicitation; and by the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

Publications, Reports, and Presentations