Visualizing Aboveground Biomass

  • The ESA CCI Global Forest Aboveground Biomass v5.01 provides estimates of forest above-ground biomass for the years 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

  • See https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/cci_agb/ for source documentation

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try:
    import  geeViz.geeView as geeView
except:
    !python -m pip install geeViz
    import  geeViz.geeView as geeView

import geeViz.geePalettes as palettes
ee = geeView.ee
Map = geeView.Map

print('done')

Initializing GEE
Successfully initialized
done

Make a basic viewer

  • This is a slight adaptation of the example provided here: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/

  • Map will automatically summarize the average biomass for your view extent

Map.clearMap()
Map.port = 1234
# Specify projection to use for zonal summaries and map querying
# Be sure to leave one of scale or transform as None
crs= 'EPSG:4326'
transform = None
scale = 30


Map.setQueryCRS(crs)
if transform == None:
    Map.setQueryScale(scale)
else:
    Map.setQueryTransform(transform)
Map.clearMapLayers()

####################################################################
# Adapted from: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/ESA-CCI-ABOVEGROUND-BIOMASS
Map.clearMap()

palette = ["#C6ECAE","#A1D490","#7CB970","#57A751","#348E32", "#267A29","#176520","#0C4E15","#07320D","#031807"];

agb = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/ESA/ESA_CCI_AGB")
Map.addTimeLapse(agb,{'bands':'AGB','min':1,'max':450,'palette':palette,'legendLabelLeftAfter':'ton/ha','legendLabelRightAfter':'tons/ha','canAreaChart':True,'areaChartParams':{'crs':crs,'transform':transform,'scale':scale,'yAxisLabel':'Mean tons/ha'},'queryParams':{'yLabel':'tons/ha'}},'Aboveground Biomass')


Map.turnOnAutoAreaCharting()
Map.view()

Setting click query crs to: EPSG:4326
Setting click query scale to: 30
Adding layer: Aboveground Biomass
Starting webmap
Using default refresh token for geeView
Local web server at: http://localhost:1234/geeView/ already serving.
cwd c:\RCR\geeVizBuilder\geeViz\examples
geeView URL: http://localhost:1234/geeView/?projectID=rcr-gee&accessToken=ya29.a0AeXRPp4oFDROWwTr95nCQ7MsvyXW99qTgldpbE4lfRDXhv9lj6A7yYBIR2wrUcY1iuxopBq4BkHuw9BEoN01GV3RyyB2eaYlFvJqQZ8n-TusZsspZbTECGGQny1_GL47MMJUurMV49dg4zbLg2FgY34Uafrr-fr3HZDIdhZyz5e30fJ-es1waCgYKAdYSARASFQHGX2MiKIlI4Hi4exkX1ejrSa2jDQ0187&accessTokenCreationTime=1743468731233