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Maps of the aboveground carbon density (ACD) of vegetation generated by remote sensing technologies, such as airborne LiDAR, are vital for quantifying the effects of land use change for greenhouse gas emissions, and many papers have developed methods for mapping forests. However, nobody has yet mapped oil palm ACD from LiDAR. The development of carbon prediction models would open doors to remote monitoring of plantations as part of efforts to make the industry more environmentally sustainable. This paper compares the performance of tree-centric and area-based approaches to mapping ACD in oil palm plantations. We find that an area-based approach gave more accurate estimates of carbon density than tree-centric methods and that the most accurate estimation model includes LiDAR measurements of top-of-canopy height and canopy cover. We show that tree crown segmentation is sensitive to crown density, resulting in less accurate tree density and ACD predictions, but argue that tree-centric approach can nevertheless be useful for monitoring purposes, providing a method to detect, extract and count oil palm trees automatically from images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9080816","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,9]],"date-time":"2017-08-09T10:54:56Z","timestamp":1502276096000},"page":"816","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Mapping Aboveground Carbon in Oil Palm Plantations Using LiDAR: A Comparison of Tree-Centric versus Area-Based Approaches"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Matheus","family":"Nunes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Ewers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Buckhusrt Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK"}]},{"given":"Edgar","family":"Turner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8261-2582","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Coomes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"154","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2012.10.033","article-title":"Annual multi-resolution detection of land cover conversion to oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon","volume":"129","author":"DeFries","year":"2013","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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