Accuracy of the Copernicus High-Resolution Layer Forest Type (HRL FTY) assessed with domestic NFI sampling plots in Poland

Abstract

Over the past years, several remote sensing maps of land cover have been produced, but they still exhibit certain differences compared to the real land use that reduce their value for climate and carbon cycle modelling as well as for national estimates of forest carbon stocks and their change. This paper outlines a straightforward framework for evaluating map accuracy and estimating uncertainty in land cover area, specifically for forest-related land cover maps in Poland for the year 2018.

Keywords

• remote sensing
• copernicus land monitoring service
• broad-leaved
• coniferous
• national forest inventory
• ghg inventory
• land use
• land use change and forestry
• accuracy metrics
• uncertainty