Estimating Forest Above Ground Biomass from Inventory Plots and Airborne Lidar: Addressing Plot Size and Uncertainty Quantification
KC Cushman1, Dr. Sassan Saatchi1, Christopher Mulverhill2, Bruce D Chapman3, Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira4, Sean McMahon5, William J McShea6 and Ronald E McRoberts7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Forest Resources, Vancouver, Canada, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States, (5)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (6)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States, (7)USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, United States
