Thirty-meter map of young forest age in China

Xiao, Yuelong; Wang, Qunming; Tong, Xiaohua; Atkinson, Peter M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3365-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3365-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3365-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

Data description paper

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02 Aug 2023

Data description paper |

| 02 Aug 2023

Thirty-meter map of young forest age in China

Yuelong Xiao, Qunming Wang, Xiaohua Tong, and Peter M. Atkinson

Data sets

30 m Map of Young Forest Age in China Yuelong Xiao https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21627023.v7

Short summary

Forest age is closely related to forest production, carbon cycles, and other ecosystem services. Existing stand age products in China derived from remote-sensing images are of a coarse spatial resolution and are not suitable for applications at the regional scale. Here, we mapped young forest ages across China at an unprecedented fine spatial resolution of 30 m. The overall accuracy (OA) of the generated map of young forest stand ages across China was 90.28 %.