Diameter, height and species of 42 million trees in three European landscapes generated from field data and airborne laser scanning data

Aussenac, Raphaël (author), Monnet, Jean-Matthieu (author), Klopčič, Matija (author), Hawryło, Paweł (author), Socha, Jarosław (author), Mahnken, Mats (author), Gutsch, Martin (author), Cordonnier, Thomas (author), Vallet, Patrick (author)

Ecology and forestry sciences are using an increasing amount of data to address a wide variety of technical and research questions at the local, continental and global scales. However, one type of data remains rare: fine-grain descriptions of large landscapes. Yet, this type of data could help address the scaling issues in ecology and could prove useful for testing forest management strategies and accurately predicting the dynamics of ecosystem services. Here we present three datasets describing three large European landscapes in France, Poland and Slovenia down to the tree level. Tree diameter, height and species data were generated combining field data, vegetation maps and airborne laser scanning (ALS) data. Together, these landscapes cover more than 100 000 ha and consist of more than 42 million trees of 51 different species. Alongside the data, we provide here a simple method to produce high-resolution descriptions of large landscapes using increasingly available data: inventory and ALS data. We evaluated the overall reliability of our workflow by comparing the stands dominant heights measured by ALS to those calculated from the trees we generated. Overall, the landscapes we generated are in good agreement with the landscapes they aim to reproduce.

• Language: English
• Keywords: forest inventory, landscape, tree-level, airborne laser scanning, downscaling
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 1-20
• Numbering: Vol. 3, 33
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-148213
• UDC: 630*58
• ISSN on article: 2732-5121
• DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15373.2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 184847363
• Publication date in RUL: 02.08.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Open research Europe
• Publisher: European Commission
• ISSN: 2732-5121
• COBISS.SI-ID: 80728323

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gozdna inventura, lasersko snemanje

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: European Commission
• Project number: 773324
• Name: ForestValue - Innovating forest-based bioeconomy
• Acronym: ForestValue