KEY WORDS 
ABSTRACT 
Large footprint 
altimetry for th 
converting the 
demonstrating | 
packages for th 
using field mea 
and western co 
field measurem 
SLICER was a 
vertical distribu 
and rate of cha 
estimates of the 
of canopy elem 
predict a wide 
standard deviat 
been very good 
of variance ex 
impediments to 
Characterizatio 
remote sensing 
forests. A nev 
altimeters, deve 
(Bufton, 1989; 
potential to g 
important aspe: 
the vertical dis