Abstract
This research aimed to estimate the biomass of the trunk area of a Pinus taeda L. stand from vegetation indices from Landsat-8/OLI and Sentinel-2/MSI optical remote sensors. In order to obtain the biomass, a forest inventory was carried out with the installation of 33 circular plots of 400 m², in which all the individuals had the diameter at breast height (cm) and the total height (m) measured. Then, 30 trees were scaled by the Smalian method. The individual tree volume was estimated by the Meyer regression volumetric equation. The biomass was obtained through the product of the individual tree volume by the wood basic density. Subsequently, aerial biomass was obtained per plot. The processed orbital images were gathered from the Landsat-8/OLI and Sentinel-2/MSI sensors. We derived 19 vegetation indices for both images, which were correlated with the biomass per plot. The indexes with the best correlation with the biomass were considered as regression variables to develop models by the Stepwise technique (Backward and Forward). The correlation was significant among the variables and the best model was derived from the Landsat-8 data, which estimated the biomass per plot with an error of 8.75% and an adjusted coefficient of determination of 0.8173. Nevertheless, the statistical analysis revealed that there was no significant difference between the biomass estimated by the inventory and by the remotely located data.
Highlights
The species Pinus taeda L. is native to the South and Southeast of the United States of America, but in Brazil it was introduced in the 1930 ́s (Shimizu, 2008)
For Sanquetta et al (2002), biomass is defined as a mass of living or dead plant biological matter existing in a forest or even only in the tree fraction
The objective of this research was to estimate the trunk biomass of a Pinus taeda L. forest stand from vegetation indices from Landsat-8/OLI and Sentinel2/M SI
Summary
The species Pinus taeda L. is native to the South and Southeast of the United States of America, but in Brazil it was introduced in the 1930 ́s (Shimizu, 2008). Factors such as fast growth and the wood quality enabled the expansion of the forest plantations of this species in the 1960 ́s in the Southern of Brazil (Kronka et al, 2005). M artinelli et al (1994), define biomass as an amount expressed in mass of available plant material in a forest. For Sanquetta et al (2002), biomass is defined as a mass of living or dead plant biological matter existing in a forest or even only in the tree fraction. Odum (1986) designates biomass as the organic mass produced by area unit, and it can be expressed in dry matter weight, wet matter weight and carbon weight
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