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Forest biomass and the science of inventory from space

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109, California, USA

    Sassan Saatchi

  2. Department of Earth and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden

    Lars Ulander

  3. University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK

    Mathew Williams

  4. Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK

    Shaun Quegan

  5. Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Toulouse, 31401, France

    Thuy LeToan

  6. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904, Virginia, USA

    Herman Shugart

  7. CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, UMR 5174, France

    Jerome Chave

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Saatchi, S., Ulander, L., Williams, M. et al. Forest biomass and the science of inventory from space. Nature Clim Change 2, 826–827 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1759

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