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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-13-2026-41-2026</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Biomass Prediction Combining Radar, Multispectral and Field Inventory Data</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pereira-Pires</surname>
<given-names>João E.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guerra-Hernández</surname>
<given-names>Juan</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Anil-Lathika</surname>
<given-names>Amal</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Saarela</surname>
<given-names>Svetlana</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9044-7249</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Silva</surname>
<given-names>João M. N.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-9836</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fonseca</surname>
<given-names>José M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mora</surname>
<given-names>André</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Centre of Technology and Systems/UNINOVA, Associate Lab of Intelligent Systems, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Caparica, Portugal</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Forest Research Centre, Associate Laboratory TERRA, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>12</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLVIII-M-13-2026</volume>
<fpage>41</fpage>
<lpage>48</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 João E. Pereira-Pires et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Information on forest biomass is crucial for a better management and understanding of wildfires effects (pre- and post-fire analyses), as well as for a more accurate monitoring of carbon cycle dynamics. The current literature adopts two main approaches for the retrieving of biomass values: 1) predicting the biomass through allometric equations based on field measurements or Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) metrics; and 2) using machine learning models based on spaceborne data sources (radar, optical, and laser), trained with field or ALS data. While approach 1) is usually spatially limited and has high costs; approach 2) mostly focuses on the Aboveground Biomass Density (AGBD) (i.e.: leaves, branches, trunk), disregarding the other components of the forest ecosystems as root biomass (BGBD), litter biomass (LBD) and shrubs biomass (SBD)) which leads to biomass underestimation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This article proposes a novel methodology capable of producing accurate predictions of the four previously mentioned biomass components, that integrates multi-source remote sensing observations acquired by synthetic aperture radars (ALOS-2 and Sentinel- 1), multispectral sensors (Sentinel-2), and ancillary data (on topography and land cover). The methodology resorts to an extreme gradient boosting regressor trained with field inventory data for the AGBD and BGBD, and ALS data for the LBD and SBD. It was demonstrated the importance of including all the proposed datasets and that reliable predictions were achieved. Namely, %RMSEs of 63.29%, 62.90%, 41.07%, 28.34% were achieved for the AGBD, BGBD, LBD, and SBD, respectively.</p>
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