Dubayah, Ralph: University of Maryland (Project Lead)
Armston, John: University of Maryland (Co-Investigator)
Powell, Elisabeth (Lizzy): University of Maryland (Participant)
Silva, Carlos: University of Maryland (Post-Doc)
Stovall, Atticus: NASA GSFC / UMD (Post-Doc)
Bruening, Jamis: University of Maryland (Student-Graduate)
Project Funding:
2014 - 2019
NRA: 2012 NASA: Earth Venture
Funded by NASA
Publications:
Hancock, S., Armston, J., Hofton, M., Sun, X., Tang, H., Duncanson, L. I., Kellner, J. R., Dubayah, R. 2019. The GEDI Simulator: A Large-Footprint Waveform Lidar Simulator for Calibration and Validation of Spaceborne Missions. Earth and Space Science. 6(2), 294-310. DOI: 10.1029/2018EA000506
Patterson, P. L., Healey, S. P., Stahl, G., Saarela, S., Holm, S., Andersen, H., Dubayah, R. O., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Armston, J., Kellner, J. R., Cohen, W. B., Yang, Z. 2019. Statistical properties of hybrid estimators proposed for GEDI--NASA's global ecosystem dynamics investigation. Environmental Research Letters. 14(6), 065007. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab18df
Pelletier, J., Siampale, A., Legendre, P., Jantz, P., Laporte, N. T., Goetz, S. J. 2017. Human and natural controls of the variation in aboveground tree biomass in African dry tropical forests. Ecological Applications. 27(5), 1578-1593. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1550
Qi, W., Dubayah, R. O. 2016. Combining Tandem-X InSAR and simulated GEDI lidar observations for forest structure mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment. 187, 253-266. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.018
Stavros, E. N., Schimel, D., Pavlick, R., Serbin, S., Swann, A., Duncanson, L., Fisher, J. B., Fassnacht, F., Ustin, S., Dubayah, R., Schweiger, A., Wennberg, P. 2017. ISS observations offer insights into plant function. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(7). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0194
Stysley, P. R., Coyle, D. B., Kay, R. B., Frederickson, R., Poulios, D., Cory, K., Clarke, G. 2015. Long term performance of the High Output Maximum Efficiency Resonator (HOMER) laser for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar. Optics & Laser Technology. 68, 67-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2014.11.001
Tang, H., Dubayah, R. 2017. Light-driven growth in Amazon evergreen forests explained by seasonal variations of vertical canopy structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(10), 2640-2644. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616943114
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