GEDI research featured at AGU fall meeting 2026
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The NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission will be featured in numerous scientific presentations at the AGU Fall Meeting 2026, taking place December 7–11 in San Francisco, CA.
The presentations will explore topics including forest biomass and structure, ecosystem dynamics, carbon monitoring, biodiversity, wildfire impacts, and the integration of GEDI observations with other remote sensing missions, such as NISAR and ICESat-2. Together, these contributions demonstrate the continued impact of GEDI data in advancing our understanding of Earth’s Ecosystems.
Check out the list of presentations GEDI-related presentations at AGU Fall Meeting 2026.
| Title (click for AGU record) | Authors | Session | Date | Time | Location | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cache, Don’t Repack? Benchmarking the New HDF5 2.2.0 ROS3 Block Cache Against Cloud-Optimized Files for NASA GEDI Data in Amazon S3 | Aleksandar Jelenak | IN11C – General Informatics Session: From Data to Discovery Through Informatics, AI, and Innovation I Poster | Monday, 7 December | 08:30–12:00 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| GEDI-Derived Ecosystem-Scale Horizontal Canopy Heterogeneity Regulates Forest Fluxes via Microclimatic and Physiological Controls | Trupti Satapathy; Debsunder Dutta | B11P – Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function I Poster | Monday, 7 December | 08:30–12:00 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Five Years of Change in Global Protected Areas with NASA GEDI | Laura Duncanson; Amelia Holcomb; Veronika Leitold | B11A – Advances in Remote Sensing Capabilities Leading to a Better Understanding of Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management I Oral | Monday, 7 December | 08:35–08:45 | 3010 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Post-fire recovery of canopy cover and structural complexity across the full vertical profile of evergreen forests in the western United States using GEDI spaceborne lidar | Ved Bhoot; Marcos Longo; Jennifer A Holm | B12A – Advances in Remote Sensing Capabilities Leading to a Better Understanding of Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management II Oral | Monday, 7 December | 10:45–10:55 | 3010 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Estimating Plant Diversity Across U.S. Biomes with EMIT and GEDI | Anna K Schweiger; Ceili DeMarais; Raqib Valli | GC12B – Advancing Global Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal Infrared Measurements: ECOSTRESS, EMIT, and EAGLE I Oral | Monday, 7 December | 11:05–11:16 | 2007 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Beyond the Waveform: Expanding the Reach of GEDI Applications | Elisabeth Powell; Adrian Pascual; Talia Schwelling | B13B – Advances in Remote Sensing Capabilities Leading to a Better Understanding of Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management III Poster | Monday, 7 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Monitoring Tropical Forest Height and Biomass Change in the Congo Basin with Disturbance-Aware GEDI-TanDEM-X Fusion | Wenlu Qi; Ralph Dubayah; John David Armston | B13H – Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications II Poster | Monday, 7 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Reconstructing continuous forest biomass-age trajectories by integrating process-based modeling and GEDI with knowledge-guided machine learning | Ziqi Qin; Licheng LIU; Mengyu Liang | B13B – Advances in Remote Sensing Capabilities Leading to a Better Understanding of Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management III Poster | Monday, 7 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Linking NISAR and GEDI to monitor woody vegetation management impacts on carbon stocks in savanna ecosystems | John David Armston; Preet Lal; Konrad J Wessels | G13A – The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Early Results in Geodesy, Cryosphere, Ecosystems II Oral | Monday, 7 December | 14:45–14:55 | 158 – South (MC) | Oral |
| Understanding the Complementarities of GEDI, TanDEM-X, BIOMASS Observations, and Satellite Embeddings for Tropical Forest Biomass Mapping | Yanzhou Xie; Ralph Dubayah; John David Armston | B14C – Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications II Oral | Monday, 7 December | 17:35–17:45 | 3009 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Mapping Deforestation and Land-Use Transitions in the Amazon Using GEDI LiDAR and NISAR Remote Sensing | Sam Pflugh; Sam Stein; Faith Lesuer | G21E – The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Early Results in Geodesy, Cryosphere, Ecosystems IV Poster | Tuesday, 8 December | 08:30–12:00 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Measurement and Large-Scale Retrieval of Forest Understory Structure Based on UAV-LiDAR and GEDI | Zhiyong Qi; Qinghua Guo | B21O – Synergizing Lidar and AI to Unveil Forest Structure and Its Links to Ecosystem Functions and Services I Poster | Tuesday, 8 December | 08:30–12:00 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Global Canopy Height and Uncertainty Estimation from GEDI and ICESat-2 | Lin Xiong; John David Armston; Ralph Dubayah | G21B – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE I GeoBurst | Tuesday, 8 December | 08:30–10:00 | 1 – South (MC) | GeoBurst |
| The Synergy of GEDI and NISAR for Aboveground Biomass Estimation | Preet Lal; John David Armston; Ralph Dubayah | G21B – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE I GeoBurst | Tuesday, 8 December | 08:30–10:00 | 1 – South (MC) | GeoBurst |
| Updated theoretical basis for version-3 Level-4A GEDI aboveground biomass density | James R Kellner; John David Armston; Laura Duncanson | G21B – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE I GeoBurst | Tuesday, 8 December | 08:30–10:00 | 1 – South (MC) | GeoBurst |
| Standardizing on-demand Cloud-Native, Multi-Mission Data Access Pathway on MAAP for Data-fusion from NISAR, ESA BIOMASS, and GEDI Datasets | Harshini Girish; Henry Rodman; Alex Mandel | IN21A – Advancing Earth Science Data in Cloud Environments I Oral | Tuesday, 8 December | 09:40–09:50 | 2016 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Disentangling how forest fuels drive disparate wildfire severity patterns using GEDI waveforms and GEDI-CCDC fusion | Christopher R Hakkenberg; Matthew L Clark; Patrick Burns | NH23G – Vegetation-Fuel Mapping with Remote Sensing Poster | Tuesday, 8 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Modeling forest growth potential across fragmentation gradients in the Atlantic Forest using NASA’s GEDI | Rodrigo Vieira Leite; Christopher S R Neigh; Paul M Montesano | B23N – Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment III Poster | Tuesday, 8 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Scaling Forest Structural Diversity with GEDI: Linking Forest Structure to Wildlife Habitat and Biodiversity | Jody Vogeler; Kerri T Vierling; Joe Holbrook | B23C – Synergizing Lidar and AI to Unveil Forest Structure and Its Links to Ecosystem Functions and Services II Oral | Tuesday, 8 December | 14:55–15:05 | 3008 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Predicting Complete Forest Vertical Profiles from GEDI, Earth Embeddings, and Landscape Dynamics | Matteo Redana; Christopher R Hakkenberg; Patrick Burns | B23C – Synergizing Lidar and AI to Unveil Forest Structure and Its Links to Ecosystem Functions and Services II Oral | Tuesday, 8 December | 15:25–15:35 | 3008 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Monitoring Forest Structural State Across Amazonian Degradation Gradients Using GEDI | Emily Doyle; Hugh Graham; Chris Boulton | B24F – Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest Disturbance and Recovery IV Oral | Tuesday, 8 December | 17:20–17:30 | 3008 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Annual Forest Cover Maps of Africa for 2015–2023 Based on PALSAR-2, Landsat, and GEDI Lidar Data | Yuan Yao; Xiangming Xiao | B31O – Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment IV Poster | Wednesday, 9 December | 08:30–12:00 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Beyond Canopy Cover and Height: Mapping Three-Dimensional Forest Structural Dynamics with GEDI and AlphaEarth Foundations Embeddings | Chenyang Wei; Trevor Roberts; Colin Sweeney | GC31A – Advance in Remote Sensing and Modeling of Trees and Forest Ecosystems I Oral | Wednesday, 9 December | 08:57–09:09 | 2008 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Small-scale forest mapping with PlanetScope, 3DEP, and GEDI in Minnesota | Xukun Zhu; Rui Cheng; Leikun Yin | GC31A – Advance in Remote Sensing and Modeling of Trees and Forest Ecosystems I Oral | Wednesday, 9 December | 09:45–09:57 | 2008 – West (MC) | Oral |
| Closing the Tropical Forest Degradation Monitoring Gap with GEDI and EDGE | Amelia Holcomb; Viola Heinrich; Clément Bourgoin | G32A – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE III Oral | Wednesday, 9 December | 10:46–11:00 | 158 – South (MC) | Oral |
| High-resolution plant functional type alters GEDI footprint and gridded biomass estimates | Joseph Mascaro; Paulo A Arevalo; Alice Ni | G33A – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE IV Poster | Wednesday, 9 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: Current Status and Recent Advances | Ralph Dubayah | G33A – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE IV Poster | Wednesday, 9 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Validation of GEDI Canopy Cover and Vertical Profile Metrics across Phenological Phases | Padmageetha Nagarajan; John David Armston; Michelle A Hofton | G33A – Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE IV Poster | Wednesday, 9 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Estimating Crop Canopy Height Using GEDI LiDAR and Sentinel-2 Imagery for Precision Agriculture Applications | Sarah Tasnim; Sorin C Popescu | B43J – From Pixels to Practice: Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Driving Agricultural Innovation II Poster | Thursday, 10 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
| Exploring the Potential of GEDI-Derived Vegetation Structure Metrics to Improve Post-Fire Debris Flow Hazard Models. | Geo Mendoza; Ian Buchanan; James J Guilinger | B43G – Characterizing Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Impacts on Vegetation and Soil: Toward Standardizing Existing Fire Metric Terminology and Understanding Gaps in Measuring and Monitoring Fire’s Impacts on Ecosystems II Poster | Thursday, 10 December | 14:15–17:45 | South – Poster Hall (Hall ABC) (MC) | Poster |
Explore the complete AGU Fall Meeting 2026 scientific program here.
