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First datasets for national biomass and carbon dataset now available

02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!

Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000 are releasing data from nine project mapping zones. All NBCD2000 data products are being made available for download on a zone-by-zone basis and free of charge from the NBCD2000 project Web site.

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