Crystal Schaaf¹, Zhuosen Wang², Arthur Elmes¹, Qingsong Sun³, Angela Erb¹, Jia Tian¹, Peter Boucher¹, Zhan Li⁴, Feng Gao⁵, Xiaoyang Zhang⁶, Wolfgang Lucht⁷, Alan H Strahler⁸ and Shabnam Rouhani¹, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, Canada, (5)USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, SD, United States, (7)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (8)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States