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Description & Details: The Centre for Geo-Information at Wageningen University (NL) is offering a PostDoc position
to perform research on (1) concepts, tools and implementation for independent validation, regional calibration and use of global biomass products derived from remote sensing and (2) the use of global biomass products for assessing impacts of human-induced changes on tropical forest biomass. The work is linked with the ESA DUE GlobBiomass project which aims to better characterize and to reduce uncertainties of aboveground biomass estimates at regional and global scales by developing an innovative synergistic mapping approach using EO and in-situ data. The focus of the PostDoc position will be on the validation task of the GlobBiomass products building upon work already performed at the GRS group (www.wageningenur.nl/grsbiomass) using an existing validation protocol that was developed as part of the project using different types of existing biomass reference data in a harmonized manner. The new and improved forest biomass map data and estimates (incl. uncertainties) will be used in analyses related to REDD+ and on quantifying the impact of forest regrowth in terms of biomass accumulation and carbon sink in the tropics from local to regional scales, and understanding the role of regrowing forests in the establishment of Reference Levels and Nationally Determined Contributions as outlines by the Paris Climate Agreement. For Europe, reference data from national forest inventories acquired using different inventory designs will be used in an independent assessment of recent global biomass maps.
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