{"id":118840,"date":"2025-07-30T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/?p=118840"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:49:06","slug":"two-decades-of-changes-in-forest-biomass-in-the-contiguous-united-states-from-nasas-multiangle-imaging-spectro-radiometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/2025\/07\/30\/two-decades-of-changes-in-forest-biomass-in-the-contiguous-united-states-from-nasas-multiangle-imaging-spectro-radiometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Decades of Changes in Forest Biomass in the Contiguous United States from NASA\u2019s Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Goal: To generate forest aboveground biomass maps for the lower 48 states for 2000 \u2013 2022. Maps for the southwest are already published at the Oak Ridge National Lab DAAC and MISR mapping performance assessed using lidar-based estimates. The map series shows forest growth and losses from wildfires, bark beetle, pathogens, storm damage, and harvest.<\/li>\n<li>Retrieved and processed data (~5,000 \u2013 10,000 files per year) and composited to remove cloud contamination and non-land data, as shown (right). Data to fill the holes have been acquired and processed and are ready for compositing.<\/li>\n<li>Only two more steps are needed for the production of the complete forest map series for the conterminous United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2025\/07\/chopping-sabatical-slide.pdf\">View Presentation Slide<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2025 Sabbatical Project Progress for Dr. Mark Chopping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":118841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118843,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118840\/revisions\/118843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}