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Deadline: January 15, 2009

Responsible Author

Title

co-authors

Bergen

Remote Sensing of Vegetation 3D Structure for Biodiversity and Habitat: Implications for Lidar and Radar Spaceborne Missions

Goetz, Dubayah, Henebry, Hunsaker, Imhoff, Nelson, Parker, Radeloff

Frolking

Forest disturbance and recovery - a general review in the context of space-borne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

Palace, Clark, Chambers, Shugart, Hurtt

Ni-Meister

Assessing General Relationships Between Above Ground Biomass and Vegetation Structure Parameters for Improved Carbon Estimate from Vegetation Lidar

Lee, Strahler, Woodcock, Schaaf, Sun, Ranson, Blair

Washington-Allen

Environmental Tomography of a Mesquite-dominated Dryland using LIDAR and GPR

Houghton

The Importance of Vegetation Biomass in the Global Carbon Cycle

Hurtt

The role of structure in vegetation dynamic models

Shugart

Vegetation Structure and Dynamics of Terrestrial Carbon Sheet

Dubayah

Advances in Lidar measurements of vegetation structure

Saatchi

Advances in Radar measurements of vegetation structure and biomass

Mitchard

Measuring Biomass Changes due to Woody Encroachment and Deforestation
in the Forest-savanna Boundary Region of Central Africa using
Multi-temporal L-band Radar Backscatter

Saatchi, Woodhouse, Feldpausch, Lewis, Sonke, Rowland & Meir

Goetz

Synergistic Use of Space-borne LiDAR and Optical Imagery for Assessing Forest

3 Disturbance: an Alaska Case Study

Goetz, SJ, M. Sun, A. Baccini, P.S.A. Beck

Hawbaker

Improved estimates of forest vegetation structure and biomass

with a LiDAR-optimized sampling design

Hawbaker, Todd J., N.S. Keuler, A.A. Lesak, T. Gobakken, K. Contrucci, V. Radeloff

Chambers

Forest biomass change from hurricane Katrina induced disturbance combining radar and optical remote sensing

Walker

Object-oriented InSAR/Lidar/Optical fusion for Estimation of Vegetation Canopy Height and Aboveground Biomass

Hurtt

Beyond Potential Vegetation II: Using Repeat Lidar Data on Changes in Vegetation Height to Test Model Predictions of Ecosystem Dynamics