A national-scale remote sensing-based methodology for quantifying tidal marsh biomass to support “Blue Carbon" accounting

Kristin B Byrd1, Laurel Ballanti1, Dung Nguyen1, Marc Simard2, Nathan Marc Thomas3, Lisamarie Windham-Myers4, Edward Castaneda5, Kevin D Kroeger6, Meagan Eagle Eagle7, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles8, Patrick Megonigal9, Tiffany Troxler10, Lisa M Schile11, Melanie Davis12 and Isa Woo13, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, United States, (4)USGS, State of California's Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento, United States, (5)Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (9)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (10)Florida International University, SE Environmental Research Ctr. & Department of Biological Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (11)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (12)USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Olympia, WA, United States, (13)USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA, United States