Joint Study of Above Ground Biomass and Soil Organic Carbon for Total Carbon Estimation using Satellite Imagery in Scotland
Land Carbon verification has long been a challenge in the carbon credit market. Carbon verification methods currently available are expensive, and may generate low-quality credit. Scalable and accurate remote sensing techniques enable new approaches to monitor changes in Above Ground Biomass (AGB) and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC). The majority of state-of-the-art research employs remote sensing on AGB and SOC separately, although some studies indicate a positive correlation between the two. We intend to combine the two domains in our research to improve state-of-the-art total carbon estimation and to provide insight into the voluntary carbon trading market. We begin by establishing baseline model in our study area in Scotland, using state-of-the-art methodologies in the SOC and AGB domains. The effects of feature engineering techniques such as variance inflation factor and feature selection on machine learning models are then investigated. This is extended by combining predictor variables from the two domains. Finally, we leverage the possible correlation between AGB and SOC to establish a relationship between the two and propose novel models in an attempt outperform the state-of-the-art results. We compared three machine learning techniques, boosted regression tree, random forest, and xgboost. These techniques have been demonstrated to be the most effective in both domains.
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