David Schimel¹, Andres Baresch², Natalia Leonor Quinteros Casaverde³, Yoseline Angel⁴, Ewa Czyz⁵, Erika Podest⁶, Philip A Townsend⁷, Dana Chadwick⁸, Kimberley Rain Miner⁶, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD⁹, Tristan Goulden¹⁰, Jasper Slingsby¹¹, Ting Zheng⁷, Henry Frye⁷, Kyle R Kovach⁷, Samantha R Weintraub-Leff¹², Venkata Shashank Konduri¹³, Anabelle Cardoso¹⁴, Adam M. Wilson¹⁵, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson⁸, Scott J. Goetz¹⁶, Charles E Miller¹⁷, K. Fred Huemmrich¹⁸, Peter C Griffith¹⁹, Philip G Brodrick²⁰, Christiana Ade⁸, John Chapman²¹, Robert O Green⁸, Ryan Pavlick²², William W Turner²³, Michael E Schaepman²⁴, Andreas Hueni²⁵, Michael Rast²⁶, Marco Celesti²⁷ and Bimal Kumar Bhattacharya²⁸, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden, Biology, New York, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Earth Science, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (10)National Ecological Observatory Network, Airborne Observation Platform, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (12)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, (13)Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, (14)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States, (15)University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, (16)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (17)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (18)University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, United States, (19)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (20)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (21)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (22)NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, (23)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (24)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland, (25)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (26)International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, (27)University of Milano - Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy, (28)Indian Space Research Organization- Space Applications Center, Ahemadabad, India