Identifying forest patterns from space to explore dynamics across the circumpolar boreal

Paul M Montesano1, Christopher S R Neigh2, Min Feng3, Saurabh Channan4, Joseph O Sexton5, William Wagner1, Margaret Wooten6, Benjamin Poulter7 and Libo Wang8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC), State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Global Land Cover Facility, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Global Land Cover Facility, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Spark Climate Solutions, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada