John David Armston, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Hao Tang, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Carlos Edibaldo Silva, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, James R Kellner, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Michelle A Hofton, Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Steven Hancock, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, James Bryan Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ralph Dubayah, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States