National-scale aboveground biomass geostatistical mapping with FIA inventory and GLAS data: Preparation for sparsely sampled lidar assisted forest inventory

Chad Ryan Babcock1, Andrew O Finley2, Hans-Erik Andersen3, L. M. Moskal4, Douglas C Morton5, Bruce Cook6 and Ross Nelson5, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Forestry and Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States