**Meet the editor**

Dr Lola Fatoyinbo studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr Fatoyinbo's current research focus is the fusion of optical, Synthetic Aperture Radar and lidar data to quantify forest structure, biomass, extent and degradation. Dr. Fatoyinbo has carried out extensive field and remote sensing research in tropical forest ecosystems

of continental Africa, Madagascar and Latin America. She received her Bachelors in Biology in 2003 and her PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2008 from the University of Virginia. She then completed a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow within the Radar Science and Engineering Section at the Caltech - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where her primary research focus was on using interferometric SAR data to quantify tropical forest extent, height and biomass through the development of radar-lidar fusion algorithms. Dr Fatoyinbo is now a research physical scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Lidar Remote Sensing for Biomass Assessment 3** 

**the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Opportunities and Limitations for Research 77** 

Jacqueline Rosette, Juan Suárez,

Chapter 3 **Biomass Prediction in Tropical Forests: The Canopy Grain Approach 59**  Christophe Proisy, Nicolas Barbier, Michael Guéroult, Raphael Pélissier, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Eloi Grau and Pierre Couteron

> Natasha Ribeiro, Micas Cumbana, Faruk Mamugy and Aniceto Chaúque

**Phytoplankton Functional Types 101** 

Chapter 6 **Using SVD Analysis of Combined Altimetry and** 

Antoni Jordi and Gotzon Basterretxea

Shubha Sathyendranath and Heather A. Bouman

**Ocean Color Satellite Data for Assessing Basin Scale** 

**Physical-Biological Coupling in the Mediterranean Sea 123** 

Ross Nelson, Sietse Los, Bruce Cook and Peter North

Chapter 2 **Forest Structure Retrieval from Multi-Baseline SARs 27** 

Stefano Tebaldini

Chapter 4 **Remote Sensing of Biomass in** 

Chapter 5 **Ocean Color Remote Sensing of** 

Tiffany A.H. Moisan,

**Part 2 Oceans 99** 

**Part 1 Forests 1** 
