Interactive comment on “Characterizing Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) over the United States” by H. Tang et al

Characterizing Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP)

Characterizing Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) over the United States H. Tang, S. Ganguly, G. Zhang, M. A. Hofton, R. F. Nelson, and R. Dubayah Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA Biospheric Sciences Branch, Cod...

Characterizing leaf area index (LAI) and vertical foliage profile (VFP) over the United States

Leaf area index (LAI) and vertical foliage profile (VFP) are among the important canopy structural variables. Recent advances in lidar remote sensing technology have demonstrated the capability of accurately mapping LAI and VFP over large areas. The primary objective of this study was to derive and validate a LAI and VFP product over the contiguous United States (CONUS) using spaceborne wavefor...

Large-scale retrieval of leaf area index and vertical foliage profile from the spaceborne waveform lidar (GLAS/ICESat)

How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point ...

Tropical Forests of Réunion Island Classified from Airborne Full-Waveform LiDAR Measurements

From an unprecedented experiment using airborne measurements performed over the rich forests of Réunion Island, this paper aims to present a methodology for the classification of diverse tropical forest biomes as retrieved from vertical profiles measured using a full-waveform LiDAR. This objective is met through the retrieval of both the canopy height and the Leaf Area Index (LAI), obtained as ...