Lei Ma¹, George C Hurtt¹, Ralph Dubayah², Yiqun Xie³, John David Armston², Elliot Campbell⁴, Louise P Chini⁵, Laura Duncanson⁶, Rachel L Lamb⁷, Andrew Lister⁸, Lesley Ott⁹, Hao Tang¹⁰, Devesh Paragiri¹¹, Quan Shen⁷ and Zhihao Wang⁶, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (8)U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis, York, PA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (10)National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (11)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Computer Science, College Park, United States