Lidar tree crown detection reveals new patterns of tree density, height and volume in the Brazilian Amazon

Antonio Ferraz1, Sassan Saatchi1, Michael Keller2, Marcos Longo3 and Jean Pierre Ometto4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil