Abstract. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring satellite will be the first of China with multi-beams laser altimeter and repetition frequency equal to GLAS on world altimetry ICESat, but smaller diameter than GLAS. This a milestone Chinese from single elevation control application multi-scene applications, such as forest height, water level measurement so on. In this paper, basic paramet...

Spatially-explicit maps of aboveground biomass are essential for calculating the losses and gains in forest carbon at a regional to national level. The production of such maps across wide areas will become increasingly necessary as international efforts to protect primary forests, such as the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) mechanism, come into effect, along...

Vegetation structure, including forest canopy height, is an important input variable to fire behavior modeling systems for simulating wildfire behavior. As such, forest canopy height is one of a nationwide suite of products generated by the LANDFIRE program. In the past, LANDFIRE has relied on a combination of field observations and Landsat imagery to develop existing vegetation structure produ...

a COMPLUTIG-UAH, Department of Geography, University of Alcalá, C/ Colegios, 2, Alcalá de Henares, 28801, Madrid, Spain b Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, 1500 Research Parkway, Suite B 223, TAMU 2120, College Station, TX 77845, United States c Institute of Economics and Geography, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Albasa...

The spatiotemporal sampling differences between ground-based and satellite lidar data can contribute to significant errors for direct measurement comparisons. Improvement in sample correspondence is examined by the use of radiosonde wind velocity to vary the time average in ground-based lidar data to spatially match coincident satellite lidar measurements. Results are shown for the 26 February ...

Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) / Geosciences Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) waveform data are used to estimate biomass and carbon on a 1.27 10 km study area in the Province of Québec, Canada, below the tree line. The same input datasets and sampling design are used in conjunction with four different predictive models to estimate total aboveground dry forest biomass and forest ...

Forest structure is a useful proxy for carbon stocks, ecosystem function and species diversity, but it not well characterised globally. However, Earth observing sensors, operating in various modes, can provide information on different components of forests enabling improved understanding their variations thereof. The Ice, Cloud Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLA...