The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation.

• Duncanson L 1Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, 2181 Lefrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 USA.
• Armston J 1Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, 2181 Lefrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 USA.
• Disney M 2Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT UK.
• Avitabile V 3European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy.
• Barbier N 4AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier University, TA A51/PS2, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
• Calders K 5CAVElab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Ghent University, Room A2.089, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
• Carter S 6Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Chave J 7Laboratoire Evolution et Diversit. Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, Universit. Toulouse Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
• Herold M 6Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Crowther TW 8Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Univeritätstrasse 16, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
• Falkowski M 9Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA.
• Kellner JR 10Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA.
• Labrière N 7Laboratoire Evolution et Diversit. Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, Universit. Toulouse Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
• Lucas R 12Earth Observation and Ecosystem Dynamics Research Group, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences (DGES), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales SY23 3DB UK.
• MacBean N 13Department of Geography, Indiana University, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.
• McRoberts RE 14USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Saint Paul, 1992 Folwell Ave, St Paul, MN 55108 USA.
• Meyer V 15Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA.
• Næsset E 16Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU, P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway.
• Nickeson JE NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications Inc., 10210 Greenbelt Rd #600, Lanham, MD 20706 USA.
• Paul KI 18CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia.
• Phillips OL 19School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT UK.
• Réjou-Méchain M 4AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier University, TA A51/PS2, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
• Román M 25Earth from Space Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD USA.
• Roxburgh S 18CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia.
• Saatchi S 15Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA.
• Schepaschenko D 20International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria.
• Scipal K 21European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
• Siqueira PR 22Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 201 Marcus Hall, University of Massachusetts, 100 Natural Resources Road, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.
• Whitehurst A Arctic Slope Federal Technical Services, 7000 Muirkirk Meadows Dr #100, Laurel, MD 20707 USA.
• Williams M 24School of GeoScience, University of Edinburgh, Drummond St, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP UK.

Biomass mapping

Committee on Earth Observing Satellites

Lidar

Map validation

Reference data

Remote sensing