Understanding patterns of vegetation structure and distribution across Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR and meteorology data

Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Steven P Norman, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States and Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States