Mapping temperate old-growth forests in Central Europe using ALS and Sentinel-2A multispectral data.

ABSTRACT: Old-growth forests are essential to preserve biodiversity and play an important role in sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change. However, their existence across Europe is vulnerable due to the scarcity of their distribution, logging, and environmental threats. Therefore, providing the current status of old-growth forests across Europe is essential to aiding informed conservation efforts and sustainable forest management. Remote sensing techniques have proven effective for mapping and monitoring forests over large areas. However, relying solely on remote sensing spectral or structural information cannot capture comprehensive horizontal and vertical structure complexity profiles associated with old-growth forest characteristics. To overcome this issue, we combined spectral informat

SUBMITTER: Adiningrat DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11345331 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature