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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2020-9-2020</article-id>
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<article-title>CARBON STOCK ESTIMATION USING REMOTE SENSING DATA AND FIELD MEASUREMENT IN &lt;i&gt;HALOXYLON AMMODENDRON&lt;/i&gt; DOMINANT WINTER COLD DESERT REGION OF MONGOLIA</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Batsaikhan</surname>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lkhamjav</surname>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Batsaikhan</surname>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Batsaikhan</surname>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Norovsuren</surname>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Geography and Geo-ecology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar-15170, Mongolia</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Mongolian Geo-spatial Association, Ulaanbaatar-15141, Mongolia</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Mongolian University of Life Sciences Sciences, Zaisan-17024, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>03</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2020</year>
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<volume>V-3-2020</volume>
<fpage>9</fpage>
<lpage>17</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2020 B. Batsaikhan et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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<p>The UN-REDD Mongolia National Programme has studied about forest carbon emissions, and enhance and sustainably manage its carbon stocks, through the implementation of REDD+ activities since 2011. However, the current assessments seem to remain uncertain, the study for estimating carbon storage based on field survey are still rare. Because the &lt;i&gt;Haloxylon ammodendron&lt;/i&gt;, where Gobi desert ecosystems are covering large areas, it is necessary to develop a modelling approach applying remote sensing. The study area is locating in Gobi-Altai province, Trans-Altai area as the south-western part of Mongolia. A total of 32 plots were established on eighth different land cover types to represent the range of variability. The study was used high spatial resolution imagery of Pleiades-1 and both of active and passive data from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. The growing height in 32 plots is ranging from 20 to 460&amp;thinsp;cm with between 0.002 and 544.9&amp;thinsp;cm&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; for basal area and between 526.5 and 166106.0&amp;thinsp;cm&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; for canopy area, respectively. Shrub density is very high in plot 4 (n=135) and plot 5 (n=117) with low above-ground biomass 12&amp;thinsp;kg and 10.9&amp;thinsp;kg. The backscatter (dB) values of vegetated area and non-vegetated were comparable, &amp;minus;27.86 and &amp;minus;17.36 in VH polarisation and &amp;minus;22.72 and &amp;minus;10.61 in VV polarisation, respectively. Model-M1 was best demonstrated when a combination of vegetation coverage area was used as Pleiades-1 and Sentinel-2 derived vegetation cover data. For model-M9, the results were comparable to model-M1 but with lower the coefficient of determination. In this work, NDVI and MSAVI appear as a good indicator of biomass mainly because it does not saturate in sparse shrubs and is more sensitive to canopy parameters.</p>
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