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There’s a letter in Science today from a bunch of well known remote sensing researchers that make the unusual point that modern satellite resolution is getting too good to be accurate for forest carbon estimation.

but this resolution (0.3-5m) is too high for mapping forest carbon. Forest carbon has a natural resolution constraint: the size of an individual tree.

This is a great reminder that, sometimes, good spatial thinking trumps “better” technology. The insight applies much more widely than forest carbon estimation.