Sonia Silvestri

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Earth and Climate Sciences Division

Earth and Climate Sciences

sonia.silvestri@duke.edu

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Quantification of Peat Thickness and Stored Carbon at the Landscape Scale in Tropical Peatlands: A Comparison of Airborne Geophysics and an Empirical Topographic Method

Journal article Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · December 1, 2019 Featured Publication Peatlands play a key role in the global carbon cycle, sequestering and releasing large amounts of carbon. Despite their importance, a reliable method for the quantification of peatland thickness and volume is still missing, particularly for peat deposits l ... Full text Open Access Cite