Shi Qiu¹, Zhe Zhu¹, Xiucheng Yang¹, Curtis E Woodcock², Robert Timothy Fahey³, Stephen V. Stehman⁴, Yingtong Zhang⁵, Mari Cullerton¹, Ashley Grinstead¹, Falu Hong¹, Kexin Song¹, Ji Won Suh¹, Tian Li¹, Wei Ren¹ and Ramakrishna R Nemani⁶, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (2)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (4)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, United States, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States