Assessing the performance of the GEDI spaceborne lidar instrument using a waveform lidar simulator

Steven Hancock1, Hao Tang2, James Bryan Blair3, Ralph Dubayah2, John David Armston2, Xiaoli Sun4, Michelle A Hofton1, Laura Duncanson5, James R Kellner6 and Suzanne Marselis2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Scientific Team Name: GEDI science team