Atticus E Stovall¹, David Lagomasino^2,3, Seung-Kuk Lee³, Marc Simard⁴, Hao Tang⁵, Nathan Marc Thomas⁶, Carl Trettin⁷, John David Armston⁸, Ralph Dubayah^9,10 and Temilola Fatoyinbo^11,12, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD/NASA GSFC, College PARK, MD, United States, (7)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, SC, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (9)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (10)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States