Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Manoj Hari, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Rourkela, India, Yan Yang, Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA, Pasadena, United States, Luiz Aragao, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Celso Silva Junior, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia - IPAM, Brasilia, Brazil, Ane Alencar, IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, Brazil and Carlos Afonso Nobre, USP University of Sao Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil