KC Cushman, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, John David Armston, University of Queensland, St Lucia, United States, Ralph Dubayah, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Steven Hancock, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Michelle A Hofton, Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Kamil Kral, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, Hao Tang, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and James R Kellner, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States