How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians |
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| Authors: | Magdalena Main-Knorn Patrick Hostert Jacek Kozak Tobias Kuemmerle |
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| Institution: | 1. Geomatics Lab, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany;2. Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland;3. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison WI 53706-1598, USA |
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| Abstract: | Forests that encompass the border triangle of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia currently suffer from centuries of inadequate forest management strategies, including overexploitation during the countries’ respective communist regimes and high stress levels due to airborne emissions from heavy industry. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, each country has approached forest monitoring, protection and the improvement of forest conditions in its own way. Spaceborne remote sensing of forest changes across country borders offers great potential for better understanding the underlying drivers of change and for developing comparable indicators between countries. |
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| Keywords: | Remote sensing Change detection Forest cover Norway spruce (Piceaabies) Carpathian Mountains Central European countries Landsat |
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