{"id":5452,"date":"2022-07-13T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:56:12","slug":"potentials-and-limitations-of-nfis-and-remote-sensing-in-the-assessment-of-harvest-rates-a-reply-to-breidenbach-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2022\/07\/13\/potentials-and-limitations-of-nfis-and-remote-sensing-in-the-assessment-of-harvest-rates-a-reply-to-breidenbach-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Potentials and limitations of NFIs and remote sensing in the assessment of harvest rates: a reply to Breidenbach et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5456 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022-1024x838.png 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022-640x524.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/Ceccherini-2022.png 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Key message<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">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\u2014as reported in Nature by Ceccherini et al.\u2014is 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nRemote Sensing; Forestry; National Forest Inventories; Global Forest Change; Validation<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-022-01150-y'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nCeccherini, G., Duveiller, G., Grassi, G. et al. Potentials and limitations of NFIs and remote sensing in the assessment of harvest rates: a reply to Breidenbach et al.. Annals of Forest Science 79, 31 (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/annforsci.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13595-022-01150-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-022-01150-y<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data and\/or Code availability<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6705775#.YrSRbdJBzJU\">https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6705775#.YrSRbdJBzJU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nErwin Dreyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,110,109,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-data-in-repository","category-open-access","category-opinion-paper","cat-14-id","cat-110-id","cat-109-id","cat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}