Analyzing the influence of climate and environmental factors on growth rates of secondary tropical forests using NASA GEDI spaceborne LiDAR

Midhun Mohan1,2, Gilberto Pastorello3, Yanlei Feng2, Marcos Longo3, Lin Meng3, Michael Keller4,5, Antonio Ferraz5,6, Ovidiu Csillik5 and Jeffrey Q Chambers2,3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States