Enhancing Biomass and Carbon Stock Estimation in Tanzanian Forests: Integrating Earth Observation and Machine Learning for Sustainable Forest Management and Food Security
TANZEO-BioStock is a research project providing forest canopy height (FCH), above-ground biomass (AGB), and above-ground carbon (AGC) datasets derived from multi-source Earth observation data for the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.
The project supports scientific analyses presented in peer-reviewed publications and promotes open and reproducible research in remote sensing and forest carbon assessment. This project is funded by EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC). More info: https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/announcing-the-eo-africa-rd-research-projects-awarded-proposals-third-call/
Preliminary results presented at LPS2025, Vienna: https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/research_projects/fourth_call/highlights/10_LPS25_EOAfrica_TANZEO.pdf
- Forest canopy height, biomass, and carbon stock datasets for the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania available on Zenodo:
- The TANZEO-BioStock source code (v1.0.0) is archived on Zenodo:
Each paper directory contains the corresponding source code, configuration files, and usage instructions.
- Sadegh Jamali – Project PI
- Ernest William Mauya – Project PI, Field data collection
- Seyed Ehsan Khankeshizadeh – Data collection, analysis, modeling
- Soheil Zaghian – Methodology and validation
- Torbern Tagesson – Project member
- Filbert Francis – Project member
- Diana Lawrence Tesha – Project member
- Sami D. Madundo – Project member
- Ali Mohammadizadeh – Supervision
- Justo Jonas – Project member
This project is released under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.
For questions or collaborations, please contact:
Sadegh Jamali
📧 sadegh.jamali@tft.lth.se
🔗 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-9497
Seyed Ehsan Khankeshizadeh
📧 eh.khankeshizadeh@gmail.com
🔗 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-4802