Physically based vertical vegetation structure retrieval from ICESat data: Validation using LVIS in White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA
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a Department of Geography, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY 10065, United States b Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States c Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD 20706, United States d Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States
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