Seeing through the Canopy: Relationship between Coarse Woody Debris and Forest Structure measured by Airborne Lidar in the Brazilian Amazon

Marcos Augusto Scaranello Sr1, Michael Maier Keller2,3, Maiza Nara dos-Santos1, Marcos Longo4, Ekena Rangel Pinagé5 and Veronika Leitold6, (1)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, (2)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (3)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States