2020
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-020-00274-9
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Mapping forest age using National Forest Inventory, airborne laser scanning, and Sentinel-2 data

Abstract: Background The age of forest stands is critical information for forest management and conservation, for example for growth modelling, timing of management activities and harvesting, or decisions about protection areas. However, area-wide information about forest stand age often does not exist. In this study, we developed regression models for large-scale area-wide prediction of age in Norwegian forests. For model development we used more than 4800 plots of the Norwegian National Forest Inventory (NFI) distribu… Show more

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“…The combination of NFI and remotely sensed data is useful for mapping forest attributes and the improvement of estimates on various scales. It is currently analysed whether further variables, for example those related to stand age (Schumacher et al, 2020) and the protective functions of forests, can be included in the forest resource map SR16. Because of their fine spatial resolution and relatively high accuracy, forest resource maps offer new insights and decision support for example with respect to harvest monitoring (Breidenbach et al, 2021) and road network planning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The combination of NFI and remotely sensed data is useful for mapping forest attributes and the improvement of estimates on various scales. It is currently analysed whether further variables, for example those related to stand age (Schumacher et al, 2020) and the protective functions of forests, can be included in the forest resource map SR16. Because of their fine spatial resolution and relatively high accuracy, forest resource maps offer new insights and decision support for example with respect to harvest monitoring (Breidenbach et al, 2021) and road network planning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, this information is usually not available at fine resolution for large geographic scales. Two studies in this Collection describe the development of regression models for largearea mapping of forest age using a combination of NFI, ALS, and other data (Maltamo et al 2020;Schumacher et al 2020). Using Norwegian NFI data, Schumacher et al (2020) model stand age by exploiting tree height predicted from ALS, a site index prediction map, and Sentinel-2 data as predictor variables.…”
Section: New Estimators and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They highlight that the utility of age predictions varies according to applications. In contract to Schumacher et al (2020), Maltamo et al (2020) focus on managed forests younger than 100 years of age.…”
Section: New Estimators and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While the Sentinel-2 imagery can fail to detect single trees and small tree groups due to the size of object of interest relative to the 10-m resolution of the imagery, the resolution is su cient to detect mature individual trees or tree groups of ponderosa pine due to their average size (e.g. we expect a mature ponderosa to have a radius in the range of 6 meters) and thus appropriate for examining forest structure over large landscapes (Wasserman et al 2019;Grabska et al 2020;Schumacher et al 2020). See Wasserman and others (2019) for a comparison of landscape metrics resulting from a gradient of data resolution.…”
Section: Methods and Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 99%