About the Authors

Xiao-Peng Song

xpsong@umd.edu

Affiliations Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Chengquan Huang

Affiliations Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sassan S. Saatchi

Affiliation Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Matthew C. Hansen

Affiliation Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Townshend

Affiliations Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X-PS CH JRT. Performed the experiments: X-PS. Analyzed the data: X-PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSS MCH. Wrote the paper: X-PS CH SSS MCH JRT.