Abstract
Spatially explicit information on forest management at a global scale is critical for understanding the status of forests, for planning sustainable forest management and restoration, and conservation activities. Here, we produce the first reference data set and a prototype of a globally consistent forest management map with high spatial detail on the most prevalent forest management classes such as intact forests, managed forests with natural regeneration, planted forests, plantation forest (rotation up to 15 years), oil palm plantations, and agroforestry. We developed the reference dataset of 226 K unique locations through a series of expert and crowdsourcing campaigns using Geo-Wiki (https://www.geo-wiki.org/). We then combined the reference samples with time series from PROBA-V satellite imagery to create a global wall-to-wall map of forest management at a 100 m resolution for the year 2015, with forest management class accuracies ranging from 58% to 80%. The reference data set and the map present the status of forest ecosystems and can be used for investigating the value of forests for species, ecosystems and their services.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 199 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-14 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Scientific Data |
Volume | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 May 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The work was conducted by the NatureMap consortium, funded by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Reference data collection for the Russian Federation was supported by the Russian Science Foundation through projects No 19-77-30015 (European part of the country) and RSF-MAFF/AFFRCS No 21-46-07002 (Siberia).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
Funding
The work was conducted by the NatureMap consortium, funded by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Reference data collection for the Russian Federation was supported by the Russian Science Foundation through projects No 19-77-30015 (European part of the country) and RSF-MAFF/AFFRCS No 21-46-07002 (Siberia).
Funders | Funder number |
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Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative | |
Russian Science Foundation | 19-77-30015, 21-46-07002 |
Russian Science Foundation |
Keywords
- biodiversity
- environemtal impact
- forestry
- land use
- big data
- remote sensing
- land cover
- land system