The first ever global map of forest management was generated based on remote sensing data. To collect training data, we launched a series of Geo-Wiki (https://www.geo-wiki.org/) campaigns involving forest experts from different world regions, to explore which information related to forest management could be collected by visual interpretation of very high-resolution images from Google Maps and Microsoft Bing, Sentinel time series and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) profiles derived from Google Earth Engine. A machine learning technique was then used with the visually interpreted sample (280K locations) as a training dataset to classify PROBA-V satellite imagery. Finally, we obtained a global wall-to-wall map of forest management at a 100m resolution for the year 2015. The map includes classes such as intact forests; forests with signs of management, including logging; planted forests; woody plantations with a rotation period up to 15 years; oil palm plantations; and agroforestry. The map can be used to deliver further information about forest ecosystems, protected and observed forest status changes, biodiversity assessments, and other ecosystem-related aspects.
Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Dürauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stéphan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Pietsch, Елена Тихонова, Moonil Kim, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Yuan-Fong Su, Roman Zadorozhniuk, Flavius Sîrbu, Kripal Panging, Svіtlana Bilous, S. B. Kovalevskii, Florian Kraxner, Ahmed Harb Rabia, Roman Vasylyshyn, Rekib Ahmed, Petro Diachuk, Serhii S. Kovalevskyi, Khangsembou Bungnamei, Kusumbor Bordoloi, Andrii Churilov, Olesia Vasylyshyn, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah, Anatolii P. Tertyshnyi, Anup Saikia, Žiga Malek, Kuleswar Singha, Roman Feshchenko, Reinhard Prestele, Ibrar ul Hassan Akhtar, Kiran Sharma, Galyna Domashovets, S. Spawn, Oleksii Blyshchyk, Oleksandr Slyva, Mariia Ilkiv, Oleksandr Melnyk, Vitalii Sliusarchuk, Анатолій Карпук, Andrii Terentiev, Valentin Bilous, Kateryna Blyshchyk, Maxim Bilous, Nataliia Bogovyk, Ivan Blyshchyk, С.А. Барталев, Mikhail Yatskov, Bruno Smets, Piero Visconti, Ian McCallum, Michael Obersteiner, Steffen Fritz
С.А. Барталев, Mikhail Yatskov, Bruno Smets, Piero Visconti, Ian McCallum, Michael Obersteiner, Steffen Fritz, Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Dürauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stéphan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Pietsch,
Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Dürauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stéphan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Pietsch, Елена Тихонова, Moonil Kim, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Yuan-Fong Su, Roman Zadorozhniuk, Flavius Sîrbu, Kripal Pangin,
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