Estimation of forest aboveground biomass in California using canopy height and leaf area index estimated from satellite data

a Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA b NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA c Nature Publishing Group, San Francisco, CA, USA d Department of Science and Environmental Policy, California State University at Monterey Bay/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA e Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA f Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA g Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, MA 02215, USA