Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Kat Bormann and the rest of the ASO team
for their guidance in acquiring and processing lidar datasets. Thanks
also to collaborators at Open Topography and NCALM for the opportunity
to collect and present (through open-source platforms) high-resolution,
spatially-distributed lidar data. This study was funded by Proposition
68 the Sierra Nevada Conservancy through the California Tahoe
Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research
Station, Grant 1149, project P68IP001. A. Harpold and C. Piske were
partially supported by NSF EAR #2012310 and EAR #1723990. C. Piske was
partially supported by the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium
(NNX15AI02H).