title: [Applications of GIS in biomass energy source research].
abstract: Biomass resources have the characteristics of widespread and dispersed distribution, which have close relations to the environment, climate, soil, and land use, etc. Geographic information system (GIS) has the functions of spatial analysis and the flexibility of integrating with other application models and algorithms, being of predominance to the biomass energy source research. This paper summarized the researches on the GIS applications in biomass energy source research, with the focus in the feasibility study of bioenergy development, assessment of biomass resources amount and distribution, layout of biomass exploitation and utilization, evaluation of gaseous emission from biomass burning, and biomass energy information system. Three perspectives of GIS applications in biomass energy source research were proposed, i. e., to enrich the data source, to improve the capacity on data processing and decision-support, and to generate the online proposal.
authors.affiliation: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. suxianming@gmail.com
authors.forename: Xian-Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Wu-Kui
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi-Wei
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wen-Xiang
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Da-Hong
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D056804:Biofuels; D018533:Biomass; D017753:Ecosystem; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources / Q000145:classification; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels