Monitoring forest carbon sequestration with remote sensing and carbon cycle modeling. Environmental Management 33(4

ABSTRACT / Sources and sinks of carbon associated with forests depend strongly on the management regime and spa-tial patterns in potential productivity. Satellite remote sensing can provide spatially explicit information on land cover, stand-age class, and harvesting. Carbon-cycle process models cou-pled to regional climate databases can provide information on potential rates of production and related rates of decomposi-tion. The integration of remote sensing and modeling thus produces spatially explicit information on carbon storage and flux. This integrated approach was employed to compare car-bon flux for the period 1992–1997 over two 165-km2 areas in western Oregon. The Coast Range study area was predomi-nately private land managed for timber production, whereas the West Cascades study area was predominantly public land that was less productive but experienced little harvesting i