Fabian D Schneider¹, Philip A Townsend², Ryan Pavlick¹, Ting Zheng², Michael E Schaepman³, Steven Hancock⁴, Antonio Ferraz¹, Laura Duncanson⁵, Ralph Dubayah⁵ and David Schimel¹, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States