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Harvested area did not increase abruptly-how advancements in satellite-based mapping led to erroneous conclusions / Johannes Breidenbach in Annals of Forest Science, vol 79 n° 1 (2022)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science > vol 79 n° 1 (2022) . - n° 2 Titre : Harvested area did not increase abruptly-how advancements in satellite-based mapping led to erroneous conclusions Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Johannes Breidenbach, Auteur ; David Ellison, Auteur ; Hans Petersson, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 2 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] données spatiotemporelles [Termes IGN] Finlande [Termes IGN] image à haute résolution [Termes IGN] image Landsat [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier étranger (données) [Termes IGN] précision de l'estimation [Termes IGN] récolte de bois [Termes IGN] Suède [Termes IGN] surface forestière [Termes IGN] Union Européenne Résumé : (Auteur) Using satellite-based maps, Ceccherini et al. (Nature 583:72-77, 2020) report abruptly increasing harvested area estimates in several EU countries beginning in 2015. Using more than 120,000 National Forest Inventory observations to analyze the satellite-based map, we show that it is not harvested area but the map’s ability to detect harvested areas that abruptly increases after 2015 in Finland and Sweden. Numéro de notice : A2022-068 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1186/s13595-022-01120-4 Date de publication en ligne : 22/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01120-4 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100013 [article]

Potentials and limitations of NFIs and remote sensing in the assessment of harvest rates: a reply to Breidenbach et al. / Guido Ceccherini in Annals of Forest Science, vol 79 n° 1 (2022)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science > vol 79 n° 1 (2022) . - n° 31 Titre : Potentials and limitations of NFIs and remote sensing in the assessment of harvest rates: a reply to Breidenbach et al. Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Guido Ceccherini, Auteur ; Grégory Duveiller, Auteur ; Giacomo Grassi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 31 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] exploitation forestière [Termes IGN] Finlande [Termes IGN] foresterie [Termes IGN] image Landsat [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier étranger (données) [Termes IGN] placette d'échantillonnage [Termes IGN] récolte de bois [Termes IGN] ressources forestières [Termes IGN] Suède [Termes IGN] surface forestière [Termes IGN] Union Européenne Résumé : (auteur) The timely and accurate monitoring of forest resources is becoming of increasing importance in light of the multi-functionality of these ecosystems and their increasing vulnerability to climate change. Remote sensing observations of tree cover and systematic ground observations from National Forest Inventories (NFIs) represent the two major sources of information to assess forest area and use. The specificity of two methods is calling for an in-depth analysis of their strengths and weaknesses and for the design of novel methods emerging from the integration of satellite and surface data. On this specific debate, a recent paper by Breidenbach et al. published in this journal suggests that the detection of a recent increase in EU forest harvest rate—as reported in Nature by Ceccherini et al.—is largely due to technical limitations of satellite-based mapping. The article centers on the difficulty of the approaches to estimate wood harvest based on remote sensing. However, it does not discuss issues with the robustness of validation approaches solely based on NFIs. Here we discuss the use of plot data as a validation set for remote sensing products, discussing potentials and limitations of both NFIs and remote sensing, and how they can be used synergistically. Finally, we highlight the need to collect in situ data that is both relevant and compatible with remote sensing products within the European Union. Numéro de notice : A2022-630 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1186/s13595-022-01150-y Date de publication en ligne : 13/07/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01150-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101393 [article]

Monthly mapping of forest harvesting using dense time series Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning / Feng Zhao in Remote sensing of environment, vol 269 (February 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing of environment > vol 269 (February 2022) . - n° 112822 Titre : Monthly mapping of forest harvesting using dense time series Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Feng Zhao, Auteur ; Rui Sun, Auteur ; Liheng Zhong, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 112822 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] Californie (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] carte thématique [Termes IGN] classification par réseau neuronal convolutif [Termes IGN] déboisement [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] récolte de bois [Termes IGN] Rondonia (Brésil) [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] surveillance forestière Résumé : (auteur) Compared with disturbance maps produced at annual or multi-year time steps, monthly mapping of forest harvesting can provide more temporal details needed for studying the socio-economic drivers (e.g., differentiating salvage logging and slash-and-burn from other timber harvesting) of harvesting and characterizing the associated intra-annual carbon and hydrological dynamics. Frequent cloud cover limits the application of optical remote sensing in timely mapping of forest changes. The freely available Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor provides an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more frequent mapping of forest harvesting than ever before (i.e., at monthly interval). The unique landscape pattern of forest harvesting from Sentienl-1 data (i.e., how a harvested patch contrasts to surrounding intact forests) holds critical information for harvesting mapping but have not been fully explored. In this study, we propose a deep learning-based (i.e., U-Net) approach using the landscape pattern from Sentinel-1 data to produce monthly maps of forest harvesting in two deforestation hotspots - California, USA and Rondônia, Brazil – for as long as three years. Our results show that (1) our proposed approach is reliable (mean F1 scores (the geometric mean of user's and producer's accuracies) 0.74–0.78; mean IoU (the area of intersection over union between the prediction part and target part) 0.59–0.65) for monthly forest harvesting mapping with Sentinel-1 data, outperforming the traditional object-based approach (0.38–0.43 in IoU). The varying harvesting pattern from Sentinel-1 data can be recognized by the U-Net bottleneck block as whole entities, which is the key advantage of our proposed approach; (2) multi-temporal SAR filtering is helpful for improving the accuracies of our proposed approach (increased F1 and IoU for 0.04 and 0.06, respectively); (3) our proposed model can be trained using samples collected during a particular time period over one location and be fine-tuned using sparse local samples from a new area to achieve optimal performance, and hence can greatly reduce training data collection effort when applied to new study sites; (4) forest harvesting maps produced using our approach revealed substantial variations in monthly harvesting activities: in Rondônia, most of the forest harvest occurred in July/August (the dry season) and about 14% of the dry season harvesting were followed by fires (i.e., slash-and-burn); in California, the rates of forest harvesting were relatively stable, but abnormally high values could occur due to salvage logging after big fires. Our novel approach for mapping forest harvesting at monthly interval represents an important step towards timely monitoring of forest harvesting and assisting stakeholders in developing sustainable strategy of forest management, especially for regions with frequent cloud cover. Numéro de notice : A2022-078 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112822 Date de publication en ligne : 08/12/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112822 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99745 [article]

Modeling post-logging height growth of black spruce-dominated boreal forests by combining airborne LiDAR and time since harvest maps / Batistin Bour in Forest ecology and management, vol 502 (December-15 2021)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 502 (December-15 2021) . - n° 119697 Titre : Modeling post-logging height growth of black spruce-dominated boreal forests by combining airborne LiDAR and time since harvest maps Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Batistin Bour, Auteur ; Victor Danneyrolles, Auteur ; Yan Boucher, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 119697 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Lasergrammétrie [Termes IGN] carte forestière [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] forêt boréale [Termes IGN] forêt de production [Termes IGN] gestion forestière [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] modèle de simulation [Termes IGN] Picea mariana [Termes IGN] productivité [Termes IGN] Québec (Canada) [Termes IGN] récolte de bois [Termes IGN] semis de points Résumé : (auteur) Increase in forest disturbance due to land use as well as climate change has led to an expansion of young forests worldwide, which drives global carbon dynamics and timber allocation. This study presents a method that combines a single airborne LiDAR acquisition and time since harvest maps to model height growth of post-logged black spruce-dominated forests in a 1700 km2 eastern Canadian boreal landscape. We developed a random forest model in which forest height at a 20 m × 20 m pixel resolution is a function of stand age, combined with environmental variables (e.g., slope, site moisture, surface deposit). Our results highlight the model's strong predictive power: least-square regression between predicted and observed height of our validation dataset was very close to the 1:1 relation and strongly supported by validation metrics (R2 = 0.74; relative RMSE = 19%). Environmental variables thus allowed to accurately predict forest productivity with a high spatial resolution (20 m × 20 m pixels) and predicted forest height growth in the first 50 years after logging ranged between 16 and 27 cm·year−1 across the whole study area, with a mean of 20.5 cm·year−1. The spatial patterns of potential height growth were strongly linked to the effect of topographical variables, with better growth rates on mesic slopes compared to poorly drained soils. Such models could have key implications in forest management, for example to maintain forest ecosystem services by adjusting the harvesting rates depending on forest productivity across the landscapes. Numéro de notice : A2021-708 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119697 Date de publication en ligne : 25/09/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119697 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98819 [article]

Assessing the land expectation value of even-aged vs coppice-with-standards stand management and long-term effects of whole-tree harvesting on forest productivity and profitability / Abdelwahad Bessaad in Annals of Forest Science, vol 78 n° 3 (September 2021)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science > vol 78 n° 3 (September 2021) . - n° 57 Titre : Assessing the land expectation value of even-aged vs coppice-with-standards stand management and long-term effects of whole-tree harvesting on forest productivity and profitability Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Abdelwahad Bessaad, Auteur ; Jean-Philippe Terreaux, Auteur ; Nathalie Korboulewsky, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 57 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Castanea sativa [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] gestion forestière durable [Termes IGN] marché du bois [Termes IGN] mortalité [Termes IGN] productivité [Termes IGN] Quercus sessiliflora [Termes IGN] récolte de bois [Vedettes matières IGN] Foresterie Résumé : (auteur) Key message: Whole-tree harvesting makes forests more profitable than conventional harvest as long as the impact on tree growth remains under 2.3% for even-aged oak ( Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) and 3.4% for sweet chestnut ( Castanea sativa Mill.) coppice with oak standards. Coppice-with-standards may have potential to be more profitable than even-aged oak in case of 50% rise in fuelwood prices with 10% decrease in timber prices. Context: Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires increasing biomass removal from the forest in a sustainable way. Today, the most common practice for forest biomass extraction is whole-tree harvesting rather than conventional harvest in which only stems are harvested or sometimes branches larger than 7 cm in diameter. However, intensive biomass harvesting can certainly increase economic profitability but it could affect long-term forest productivity because more nutrients are exported from sites. Aims: We explored the land expectation value of even-aged oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) coppice with oak standards under different discount rates and wood prices scenarios, tree mortality triggered by climate variation as well as the effects of a decrease in forest productivity due to whole-tree harvesting on the land expectation value (LEV). Methods: We modeled two plausible harvesting scenarios for both stands and assessed their LEV. We first analyzed the sensitivity of the valuation results to discount rate, wood prices changes, and increased tree mortality rates. Second, we compared conventional harvest to whole-tree harvesting in which removing the fine wood implies a decrease in tree growth over the long term (between 1 and 10%). Results: In the current economic situation, the LEV of even-aged oak is higher than coppice-with-standards but this situation could be reversed in case of rising energy prices and lower timber prices in the future. The variation of the discount rate has a significant impact on the LEV but 3% seems to be adequate for European forests. A gradual increase in annual tree mortality rate of 0.6 and 0.9% along even-aged and CWS rotation, respectively, reduced the LEV by half, while increased mortality with constant rates along the rotations had more negative effect on the LEV than gradual increases: 0.4–0.5% increases in mortality rates reduced both LEV’s by half. Whole-tree harvesting is able to improve the LEV for both stands by 36 to 64% compared to conventional harvest; but this improvement of LEV only lasts as long as the impact on tree growth remains under 2.3 and 3.4%, respectively, for even-aged oak stand and coppice-with-standards. Conclusion: Whole-tree harvesting system increases forest profitability as long as the sustainability guidelines for biomass harvesting are respected. With the increased demand for fuelwood, the coppice-with-standards regime may become financially attractive once again and fulfill a multitude of forest owner objectives with a wide range of additional options. Numéro de notice : A2021-519 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s13595-021-01071-2 Date de publication en ligne : 21/06/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-021-01071-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97943 [article]

Comment améliorer la mesure des récoltes de bois en Europe ? / Nicolas Picard in The Conversation France, vol 2021 ([01/07/2021])  

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Recent increase in European forest harvests as based on area estimates (Ceccherini et al. 2020a) not confirmed in the French case / Nicolas Picard in Annals of Forest Science, vol 78 n° 1 (March 2021)  

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Evaluating the accuracy of ALS-based removal estimates against actual logging data / Ville Vähä-Konka in Annals of Forest Science, vol 77 n° 3 (September 2020)  

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Large-scale two-phase estimation of wood production by poplar plantations exploiting Sentinel-2 data as auxiliary information / Agnese Marcelli in Silva fennica, vol 54 n° 2 (March 2020)  

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A comparison of two methods of data collection for modelling productivity of harvesters: manual time study and follow-up study using on-board-computer stem records / Julia Brewer in Annals of forest research, vol 61 n° 1 (January - June 2018)  

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Impact of management on nutrients, carbon, and energy in aboveground biomass components of mid-rotation loblolly pine (pinus taeda L.) plantations / Dehai Zhao in Annals of Forest Science, vol 71 n° 8 (December 2014)  

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Récolte de bois et ergonomie / Maryse Bigot in Forêt entreprise, n° 190 (janvier 2010/1)  

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