29th April 2012

Impacts of communal fuel wood extraction on LiDAR-estimated biomass patterns of savanna woodlands

Carbon
Land Use
Savannas

Africa
South Africa

Canopy Modeling
Laser Scanning

African rural communities are extracting fuelwood from savannas at an unsustanable pace, indicating the need for affordable energy alternatives

Wessels, K., B.F.N. Erasmus, M. Colgan, G.P. Asner, R. Mathieu, W. Twine, J.A.N. van Aardt, and I. Smit

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Published in 2012

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