Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data

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Autor(a) principal: Molin, Paulo Guilherme
Data de Publicação: 2010
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2730
Resumo: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
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spelling Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover dataCarbon stockCORINE Land CoverLand use / Land coverMinimum Mapping UnitScaleDissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial TechnologiesThis research aimed to quantify the carbon stored over the years in vegetation throughout Continental Portugal. Carbon stock was measured for the years of 1985, 2000 and 2006. For this, the CORINE (Co-Ordination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover (CLC) database was used to estimate the spatial distribution and quantity of carbon stored by each land cover class. Carbon stock was the result of each CORINE land cover class area multiplied by its respective carbon density. Densities were derived from literature, namely Portuguese Environmental Agency tables. Results show a decrease of carbon stock for the time lapse of both 1985-2000 and 2000-2006. The year 1985 had a total carbon stock of 173.08 Mt, 2000 resulted in a total of 170.22 Mt and finally the year 2006 with 159.97 Mt. Spatial distribution of the carbon stock was also verified as well as the statistics per class. Results show that the gathering of carbon stock records is a key step in monitoring changes in carbon sequestration. By using CORINE land cover as a default database, this methodology may be used by other countries members of the CORINE program and therefore may be easily comparable in between them. In another approach, the COS LULC (Carta de Ocupação do Solo or land Use Cartography) was used to compare the impact and effect of scale on carbon stock estimation, represented here by different minimum mapping units (MMU). The COS land cover from the year 1990, with a 1 ha MMU was generalized into 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 ha as a way to gather information on the effects of scale differences. Results showed a small difference but with certain remarks regarding each study area.Caetano, Mário Sílvio Rochinha de AndradePainho, Marco Octávio TrindadePla Bañón, FilibertoRUNMolin, Paulo Guilherme2010-03-11T16:15:19Z2010-03-022010-03-02T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/2730enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T03:33:05Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/2730Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:15:18.162543Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
title Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
spellingShingle Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
Molin, Paulo Guilherme
Carbon stock
CORINE Land Cover
Land use / Land cover
Minimum Mapping Unit
Scale
title_short Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
title_full Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
title_fullStr Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
title_full_unstemmed Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
title_sort Estimation of vegetation carbon stock in Portugal using land use/ land cover data
author Molin, Paulo Guilherme
author_facet Molin, Paulo Guilherme
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Caetano, Mário Sílvio Rochinha de Andrade
Painho, Marco Octávio Trindade
Pla Bañón, Filiberto
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Molin, Paulo Guilherme
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Carbon stock
CORINE Land Cover
Land use / Land cover
Minimum Mapping Unit
Scale
topic Carbon stock
CORINE Land Cover
Land use / Land cover
Minimum Mapping Unit
Scale
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