IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - March 2021 - 2

Lidar Boosts 3D Ecological
232
Observations and
Modeling

by Qinghua Guo, Yanjun Su, Tianyu

Hu, Hongcan Guan, Shichao Jin,
Jing Zhang, Xiaoxia Zhao,
Kexin Xu, Dengjie Wei, Maggi Kelly,
and Nicholas C. Coops

Gas Flaring
258

by Mariapia Faruolo,
Alexandre Caseiro, Teodosio Lacava,
and Johannes W. Kaiser

COLUMNS &
DEPARTMENTS

4 FROM THE EDITOR

6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

8 CONFERENCE REPORTS

282 IN MEMORIAM
283 WOMEN IN GRSS
287 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

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University of Pavia, Italy
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Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing
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ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and DLR,
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University of Colorado, USA
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
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University of Trento, Italy
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The University of Texas at Arlington
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Maxar, USA
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Colorado State University, USA
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Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
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