Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-493-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-493-2026
Data description paper
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19 Jan 2026
Data description paper |  | 19 Jan 2026

Mapping and spatial distribution of relict charcoal hearths across Poland

Michał Słowiński, Agnieszka Halaś, Michał A. Niedzielski, Krzysztof Szewczyk, Jerzy Jonczak, Dominika Łuców, Sebastian Tyszkowski, Sandra Słowińska, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Bogusława Kruczkowska, Aleksandra Chojnacka, Tomasz Polkowski, Krzysztof Sztabkowski, Dariusz Brykała, Jacek Wolski, Tomasz Samojlik, Adrian Kaszkiel, Barbara Gmińska-Nowak, Mateusz Kramkowski, and Tomasz Związek

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ReCHAR database - spatial distribution of relict charcoal hearths across Poland Michał Słowiński et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15630690

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Poland’s first national inventory of relict charcoal hearths maps >634,000 features from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) digital terrain models (DTMs) processed in QGIS 3.18. We used relief-shaded bare-earth DTMs and web map tile services (WMTS), classifying features by size, form, slope, and environment into three main types. The open-access ReCHAR database supports research on forest history, early industries, and human–environment interactions.
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