Extended Data Fig. 7: Candidate and selected satellite images for our analysis.
From: Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands
a, 326,523 Maxar images covering 90,097,073 km2 from November to March were available for our study and were acquired from 2002 to 2020. b, The distribution by month of all satellite data in a. The selected imagery for processing (see Methods) by year totalled 94,502 images that covered 9,685,324 km2 with 87% of the satellite data from 2010 to 2020 (c) and 94% of the selected images were from the early dry-season months of November, December and January (d). We had a 9.3:1 area ratio of available imagery to selected input data for analysis. See also Extended Data Table 1a.
