Developing Low Cost Methods for Tropical Forest and Peatland Carbon Monitoring

该项目将审查当前的碳信用计划如何量化碳储存，以及衡量成功与否的监测要求。这将涉及调查数据集的误差来源和用于验证保护和再生方案如何影响固存碳数量以及如何确定基准碳储量的方法。将开发利用遥感技术与实地测量相结合的新方法来测量地上和地下的碳储量。这将通过确定一组用于模拟可从太空测量的森林泥炭地碳的目标变量来实现。与现有的方法相比，将对开发的方法的准确性和效率进行严格的评估。

The project will review how current carbon credit schemes quantify carbon storage and the monitoring requirements that are in place to measure success. This will involve investigation of sources of error in the datasets and methodology used to validate how conservation and regeneration programmes affect the amount of sequestered carbon alongside how baseline carbon stocks are determined. New approaches, using remote sensing technology combined with field measurements, will developed for measuring above and belowground carbon storage. This will be achieved through identification of a set of target variables for modelling forest peatland carbon that can be measured from space. The approaches developed will be critically evaluated for their accuracy and efficiency compared to existing.