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Re:Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more ... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday September 03, 2015 @09:27AM (#10164791)
General forest type can probably be determined quite well and I imagine that ecologists have been estimating tree mass of various types of forest for quite some time?

Recent developments with laser scanning using drones is likely to improve accuracy too.

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Re:Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more ... by kbutler on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:18PM (#10165793)
The whole point of the article is that they've (hopefully) improved the accuracy by using recent developments and combining different types of counts, and that method dramatically increases the count.
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