Savanna Above Ground Woody Biomass tDM /ha (1km)

Above Ground Woody Biomass (AGB woody) is the total dry biomass of woody plants above 0.5m height and is expressed in tonnes per hectare. The product was developed through the integration of 2010 ALOS PALSAR-1 synthetic aperture radar images, LiDAR tracks, ancillary digital elevation model (DEM) derived variables and field data of woody biomass. Commercial plantations of very high AGB, permanent water bodies and urban areas were masked out since it was not captured by the LiDAR tracks. The mapped product was clipped to the savannah biome (Mucina and Rutherford 2006) and the SAR AGB woody map was resampled to 1km pixel resolutions using a mean aggregation method.