Pulchérie Bissiengou

TL;DR: ForestGEO as discussed by the authors is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning the Earth's major forest types, which together provide a holistic view of forest functioning.

TL;DR: The Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative is presented, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database that offers the potential to improve the accuracy of RS-based biomass products while developing new synergies between the RS and ground-based ecosystem research communities.

TL;DR: The methods used for forest inventory and lidar data collection and analysis are described, and resulting plot estimates and aboveground biomass maps are presented, with a series of recommendations for future tropical forest field campaigns to better serve the remote sensing community.

TL;DR: The AfriSAR campaign as mentioned in this paper was carried out as a collaborative effort among international space and National Park agencies (ESA, NASA, ONERA, DLR, ANPN and AGEOS) in support of the upcoming ESA BIOMASS, NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) and NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Initiative (GEDI) missions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored a potential way of mapping tree species diversity by relating forest structure to tree diversity in Gabon using large footprint fullwaveform airborne lidar data collected across four study sites.