The stock map was digitized for forest compartments and land use types distributed in the different ranges of the division.
The stock map and inventory reports available with Solan Forest Division were used to derive information on forest ranges, forest compartments and land uses.
The ground truth data (reference data) used were collected from field surveys and existing stock map that had been field checked.
Six biomass or C stock maps, namely the Avitabile [21], Baccini [15], Drigo [12], Gibbs & Brown [14], Henry [4] and Reusch & Gibbs [17] maps, were compared to the NBS biomass map [20] for the area of Uganda (Table 1).
With new remote sensing based maps of forest parameters recently produced over large areas, such as the global forest canopy height map [34] or the pan-tropical forest carbon stock map [35], the development of reliable reference datasets and appropriate comparison techniques is crucial to better understand the capabilities and limitations of such datasets.
The Transit App figures prominently as a player in the vacuum left behind by Apple's decision to get rid of Google Maps as the stock maps provider for iOS, and especially since its recent update, it occupies that role very nicely.
A more spatially consistent way to produce carbon stock maps is to extend the satellite measurements directly to maps by calibrating them to field estimates of AGB using any of a number of statistical or so-called "machine learning" techniques, such as neural networks or regression trees [28, 29].
To confirm that the lethality in this lamP stock mapped to the lam gene, we remobilized the responsible P element and recovered viable and fertile excisions (data not shown).
The comparison of six biomass and C stock maps with the NBS reference dataset revealed large differences regarding estimates of total AGB of Uganda and its spatial distribution.
Six biomass or C stock maps, namely the Avitabile [ 21], Baccini [ 15], Drigo [ 12], Gibbs & Brown [ 14], Henry [ 4] and Reusch & Gibbs [ 17] maps, were compared to the NBS biomass map [ 20] for the area of Uganda (Table 1).
