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Remote Sensing of Environment 169 (2015) 113–127 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Remote Sensing of Environment journal h omepage: /locate/rse LiDAR based prediction of forest biomass using hierarchical models with spatially varying coefficients Chad Babcock a, Andrew O. Finley b,⁎, John B. Bradford c, Randall Kolka d, Richard Birdsey e, Michael G. Ryan f a School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA b Departments of Forestry and Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA c US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA d USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA e USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, USA f Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, and USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Many studies and production inventory systems have shown the utility of coupling covariates derived from Light Received 9 April 2014 Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with forest variables measured on georeferenced inventory plots through Received in revised form 4 June 2015 regression models. The objective of this study was to propose and assess the use of a Bayesian hierarchical model- Accepted 28 July 2015 ing framework that accommodates both residual spatial dependence and non-stationarity of model covariates Available