Principal Investigator: Ralph Dubayah Co Investigators: George Hurtt, Matthew Hansen Sponsor: NASA Time Period: 2014 to 2023 Researchers: Andrés Hernández Serna Graduate Researchers: Xinyuan Li Project Description This project will result in an order of magnitude increase in our knowledge of aboveground carbon stores in tropical and temperature forests. GEDI Lidar will also clarify the contribution of deforestation to atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and provide the data required to predict how much more carbon these forests will store in the future. http://science.nasa.gov/missions/gedi/ Related Publications: Liang, M., González-Roglich, M., Roehrdanz, P., Tabor, K., Zvoleff, A., Leitold, V., ... Hansen, M. C. & Duncanson, L. (2023). Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using GEDI lidar. Global Environmental Change, 78, 102621. Dubayah, R., Armston, J., Healey, S. P., Bruening, J. M., Patterson, P. L., Kellner, J. R., ... Hansen, M., ..., Luthcke, S. (2022). GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space. Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 095001. Potapov, P., Li, X., Hernandez-Serna, A., Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M., Kommareddy, A., Pickens, A., Turubanova, A., Tang, H., Silva, C.E., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Blair, J.B., Hofton, M. (2020) Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112165. Dubayah, R., Blair, J. B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., ... & Silva, C. (2020). The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography. Science of Remote Sensing, 1, 100002. Tang, H., Song, X.-P., Zhao, F.A., Strahler, A.H., Schaaf, C.L., Goetz, S., Huang, C., Hansen, M., & Dubayah, R. (2019). Definition and measurement of tree cover: A comparative analysis of field-, lidar- and Landsat-based tree cover estimations in the Sierra national forests, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 268, 258-268 Related Projects: There are no related projects