GEDI’s Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Algorithm (L4A): Conceptual framework and Model Selections per Geographic Strata

Laura Duncanson1, James R Kellner2, John David Armston3, Paul L Patterson4, Sean P Healey4, Steven Hancock5, Suzanne Marselis6, Hao Tang6, David Minor7 and Ralph Dubayah8, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Queensland, St Lucia, United States, (4)Rocky Mountain Research Statio, Ogden, UT, United States, (5)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (8)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States