Determination of Total Carbon Storage using Sentinel-2 and Geographic Information Systems in Mixed Forests

Abstract

In terrestrial ecosystems, forests have great importance in terms of carbon storage. Determination of carbon storage quantities is a key parameter for monitoring global climate change and global warming. The aim of this study to determine coniferous and broadleaf areas in the mixed stands (MS) by supervised classification generated from Sentinel-2 satellite image and to calculate the total carbon storage (TCS) of the MS using carbon coefficients. The results demonstrated that the TCS values of the MS in the study area vary between 50.52 and 175.32 ton/ha^-1. The TCS values per hectares of the pure coniferous stands, pure broadleaf stands and MS were 173.52, 143.52 and 74.21 ton/ha^-1, respectively. Carbon storage amounts per hectare of MS were found to be less because the tree species included in the mixture were decreased the growing stock volume value per hectare. Also, the structure of the MS in the study area played an effective role in obtaining these results. 

Keywords

• Supervised classification,Total carbon storage,Mixed forest,Sentinel-2 satellite image

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