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Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-929-2024
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
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20 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 20 Feb 2024

UAV approaches for improved mapping of vegetation cover and estimation of carbon storage of small saltmarshes: examples from Loch Fleet, northeast Scotland

William Hiles, Lucy C. Miller, Craig Smeaton, and William E. N. Austin

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Saltmarsh soils may help to limit the rate of climate change by storing carbon. To understand their impacts, they must be accurately mapped. We use drone data to estimate the size of three saltmarshes in NE Scotland. We find that drone imagery, combined with tidal data, can reliably inform our understanding of saltmarsh size. When compared with previous work using vegetation communities, we find that our most reliable new estimates of stored carbon are 15–20 % smaller than previously estimated.
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