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Record W4413857613 · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113456

Mapping species-specific aboveground forest biomass for Guangxi using wall-to-wall airborne laser scanning data

2025· article· en· W4413857613 on OpenAlexaff
Xiaofang Zhang, Shouzheng Tang, Liyong Fu, Huiru Zhang, Ram P. Sharma, Yuancai Lei, Guangyu Wang, Xiaodi Zhao, Xiaoyao Li, Qiaolin Ye, Zhongqi Xu, Qiao Chen

Bibliographic record

VenueEcological Indicators · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNational Forestry and Grassland AdministrationChinese Academy of ForestryNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsBiomass (ecology)Laser scanningRemote sensingEnvironmental scienceEcologyGeographyLaserBiology

Abstract

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Estimates of aboveground forest biomass (AGB) and carbon fluxes, especially on a species-specific basis, over an extensive area are crucial in decision-making in forestry. This study generated the species-specific AGB map with a resolution of 20 m using three data sources (field measurement, wall-to-wall airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, and aerial digital orthophoto map (DOM)). Field measurement and corresponding ALS data (point cloud density ≥ 2.0/m 2 ) were collected from 1086 sample plots located across four arbor forest types (Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) , Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus urophylla) , Masson pine (Pinus massoniana) , and other mixed broadleaved forests) in Guangxi province, China, between 2017 and 2019. Firstly, we developed the species-specific AGB models based on field measurement and ALS data using four modeling algorithms (linear regression (LR), support vector regression (SVR), random forest (RF), generalized additive modeling (GAM)). GAM models performed the best, with a relative RMSE ranged from 13.6 % to 35.3 %. Secondly, forest type assigned to each grid cell in the rasterized wall-to-wall ALS data was derived from DOM-derived forest-type distribution map. Finally, a species-specific AGB map with a resolution of 20 m was generated by inputting forest type and ALS metrics for each grid cell in the rasterized wall-to-wall ALS data into the species-specific GAM models. Our AGB map could be useful to formulate the effective strategies of forest management. In the future, one can monitor the changes of AGB or carbon storage in Guangxi using our AGB map.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.091
Threshold uncertainty score0.784

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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