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SCIENTIFIC DATA
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01332-3
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- Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
- Russian Science Foundation [19-77-30015]
- RSF-MAFF/AFFRCS [21-46-07002]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-77-30015] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Spatially explicit information on forest management is crucial for understanding forest status and planning sustainable management. This study developed a globally consistent forest management map and reference dataset using a combination of expert and crowdsourcing campaigns, as well as satellite imagery. The map provides high spatial detail and moderate accuracy.
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.
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