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The error removal and simple averaging algorithm, which is efficient and makes no assumption about the data and associated errors, was proposed to integrate these ten forest AGB maps. We first compiled the global reference AGB from in situ measurements and high-resolution AGB data that were originally derived from field data and airborne lidar data and determined the errors of each forest AGB map at the pixels with corresponding reference AGB values. Based on the errors determined from reference AGB data, the pixel-by-pixel errors associated with each of the ten AGB datasets were estimated from multiple predictors (e.g., leaf area index, forest canopy height, forest cover, land surface elevation, slope, temperature, and precipitation) using the random forest algorithm. The estimated pixel-by-pixel errors were then removed from the corresponding forest AGB datasets, and finally, global forest AGB maps were generated by combining the calibrated existing forest AGB datasets using the simple averaging algorithm. Cross-validation using reference AGB data showed that the accuracy of the fused global forest AGB map had an R-squared of 0.61 and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 53.68 Mg\/ha, which is better than the reported accuracies (R-squared of 0.56 and RMSE larger than 80 Mg\/ha) in the literature. Intercomparison with previous studies also suggested that the fused AGB estimates were much closer to the reference AGB values. This study attempted to integrate existing forest AGB datasets for generating a global forest AGB map with better accuracy and moved one step forward for our understanding of the global terrestrial carbon cycle by providing improved benchmarks of global forest carbon stocks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12162559","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,10]],"date-time":"2020-08-10T05:07:23Z","timestamp":1597036043000},"page":"2559","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":40,"title":["Fusion of Multiple Gridded Biomass Datasets for Generating a Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Map"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1613-5770","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuzhen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center of Industrial Spectrum Imaging, School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2708-9183","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shunlin","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Assessment of the status of the development of the standards for the terrestrial essential climate variables: Biomass","volume":"10","author":"Sessa","year":"2009","journal-title":"GTO Syst. 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