Integration of airborne lidar and vegetation types derived from aerial photography for mapping aboveground live biomass

a Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 422 Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA b Department of Computer, System and Production Engineering, University of Tor Vergata, Rome 00133, Italy c CMCC Centro Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici, via Augusto Imperatore (Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change), Lecce 73100, Italy d Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 137 Mulford Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, 3248 Northampton Ct., Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA f College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA