Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
4333 BROOKLYN AVE NE
SEATTLE,WA 98195
Performing Department
UW Main Campus- Seattle, WA
Non Technical Summary
Forests are recognized for their considerable potential to store carbon at both the regional and global scales. However, the role of forested wetlands is typically not partitioned from upland forests. This is in part due to the lack of good data on forested wetland location. Errors of omission in the National Wetland Inventory can be as high 90% in forested areas likely due to the difficulty of detecting wetlands under canopy. The RSGAL lab has recently developed remote sensing methods which are able to detect previously unmapped forested wetlands. We are interested in scaling up our methods to map forested wetlands and use these maps as a basis for a field sampling campaign to estimate carbon fluxes of forested wetlands. The goal is to better understand the potential carbon storage of forested wetlands and the impacts of current forest practices on wetland carbon fluxes.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
We are reporting on this NASA award as a state project simply so that it appears on our financial report template. Further information about this research project is available upon request.
Project Methods
NA