A cost effective and operational methodology for wall to wall Above Ground Biomass (AGB) and carbon stocks estimation and mapping: Nepal REDD+

Hammad Gilani1, Sangram Ganguly2, Gong Zhang2, Upama Ashish Koju3, M.S.R Murthy3, Ramakrishna R Nemani2, Ugan Manandhar4 and Gokarna Jung Thapa4, (1)University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)WWF-Nepal, Nepal, Nepal