Marcos Longo¹, Sassan Saatchi², Michael Keller³, Antonio Ferraz², Kevin W Bowman⁴, Joshua Fisher¹, Kerry-Anne Cawse-Nicholson², Douglas C Morton⁵, Jean Pierre Ometto⁶, Paul R Moorcroft⁷ and Mingjie Shi², (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States