deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics

Bibtex

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title = "deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics",
abstract = "Excessive tree mortality is a global concern and remains poorly understood as it is a complex phenomenon. We lack global and temporally continuous coverage on tree mortality data. Ground-based observations on tree mortality, e.g., derived from national inventories, are very sparse, and may not be standardized or spatially explicit. Earth observation data, combined with supervised machine learning, offer a promising approach to map overstory tree mortality in a consistent manner over space and time. However, global-scale machine learning requires broad training data covering a wide range of environmental settings and forest types. Low altitude observation platforms (e.g., drones or airplanes) provide a cost-effective source of training data by capturing high-resolution orthophotos of overstory tree mortality events at centimeter-scale resolution. Here, we introduce deadtrees.earth, an open-access platform hosting more than two thousand centimeter-resolution orthophotos, covering more than 1,000,000 ha, of which more than 58,000 ha are manually annotated with live/dead tree classifications. This community-sourced and rigorously curated dataset can serve as a comprehensive reference dataset to uncover tree mortality patterns from local to global scales using space-based Earth observation data and machine learning models. This will provide the basis to attribute tree mortality patterns to environmental changes or project tree mortality dynamics to the future. The open nature of deadtrees.earth, together with its curation of high-quality, spatially representative, and ecologically diverse data will continuously increase our capacity to uncover and understand tree mortality dynamics.",
author = "Clemens Mosig and Janusch Vajna-Jehle and Miguel D. Mahecha and Yan Cheng and Henrik Hartmann and David Montero and Samuli Junttila and Stéphanie Horion and Mirela Beloiu Schwenke and Michael J. Koontz and Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Djamil Al-Halbouni and Muhammad Ali and Matthew Allen and Jan Altman and Lot Amorós and Claudia Angiolini and Rasmus Astrup and Hassan Awada and Caterina Barrasso and Harm Bartholomeus and Pieter S. A. Beck and Aurora Bozzini and Joshua Braun-Wimmer and Benjamin Brede and Fabio Marcelo Breunig and Stefano Brugnaro and Allan Buras and Vicente Burchard-Levine and Jesús Julio Camarero and Anna Candotti and Luka Capuder and Erik Carrieri and Mauro Centritto and Gherardo Chirici and Myriam Cloutier and Dhemerson Conciani and KC Cushman and James W. Dalling and Phuong D. Dao and Jan Dempewolf and Martin Denter and Marcel Dogotari and Ricardo Díaz-Delgado and Simon Ecke and Jana Eichel and Anette Eltner and André Fabbri and Maximilian Fabi and Fabian Fassnacht and Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira and Fabian Jörg Fischer and Julian Frey and Annett Frick and Jose Fuentes and Selina Ganz and Matteo Garbarino and Milton García and Matthias Gassilloud and Antonio Gazol and Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo and Kilian Gerberding and Marziye Ghasemi and Francesca Giannetti and Jeffrey Gillan and Roy Gonzalez and Carl Gosper and Terry Greene and Konrad Greinwald and Stuart Grieve and André Große-Stoltenberg and Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez and Anna Göritz and Peter Hajek and David Hedding and Jan Hempel and Stien Heremans and Melvin Hernández and Marco Heurich and Eija Honkavaara and Bernhard Höfle and Robert Jackisch and Tommaso Jucker and Jesse M. Kalwij and Sebastian Kepfer Rojas and Pratima Khatri-Chhetri and Till Kleinebecker and Hans-Joachim Klemmt and Tomáš Klouček and Niko Koivumäki and Nagesh Kolagani and Jan Komárek and Kirill Korznikov and Bartłomiej Kraszewski and Stefan Kruse and Robert Krüger and Helga Kuechly and Ivan H.Y. Kwong and Etienne Laliberté and Liam Langan and Hooman Latifi and Claudia Leal-Medina and Jan R.K. Lehmann and Linyuan Li and Emily Lines and Maciej Lisiewicz and Javier Lopatin and Arko Lucieer and Antonia Ludwig and Marvin Ludwig and Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa and Qin Ma and Nicolas Mansuy and José Manuel Peña and Giovanni Marino and Michael Maroschek and M.Pilar Martín and Darío Martín-Benito and Pavan Matham and Sabrina Mazzoni and Fabio Meloni and Annette Menzel and Hanna Meyer and Mojdeh Miraki and Gerardo Moreno and Daniel Moreno-Fernández and Helene C. Muller-Landau and Mirko Mälicke and Jakobus Möhring and Jana Müllerova and Setti Sridhara Naidu and Davide Nardi and Paul Neumeier and Mihai Daniel Nita and Roope Näsi and Lars Oppgenoorth and Sagynbek Orunbaev and Melanie Palmer and Thomas Paul and Mattis Pfenning and Alastair Potts and Gudala Laxmi Prasanna and Suzanne M. Prober and Stefano Puliti and Antonio J. Pérez-Luque and Oscar Pérez-Priego and Chris Reudenbach and Jesús Revuelto and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Philippe Roberge and Pier Paolo Roggero and Christian Rossi and Nadine Katrin Ruehr and Paloma Ruiz-Benito and Christian Mestre Runge and Gabriele Giuseppe Antonio Satta and Bruno Scanu and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Felix Schiefer and Christopher Schiller and Jacob Schladebach and Marie-Therese Schmehl and Jonathan Schmid and Tristan Alexander Schmidt and Selina Schwarz and Rupert Seidl and Thomas Seifert and Ana Seifert Barba and Elham Shafeian and Aurélie Shapiro and Leopoldo de Simone and Hormoz Sohrabi and Salim Soltani and Laura Sotomayor and Ben Sparrow and Benjamin S.C. Steer and Matt Stenson and Benjamin Stöckigt and Yanjun Su and Juha Suomalainen and Elisa Tamudo and Mauro J. Tognetti Barbieri and Enrico Tomelleri and Michele Torresani and Katerina Trepekli and Saif Ullah and Sami Ullah and Josefine Umlauft and Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez and Can Vatandaslar and Vladimir Visacki and Michele Volpi and Vicente Vásquez and Christine Wallis and Ben Weinstein and Hannah Weiser and Serge Wich and Tagle Casapia Ximena and Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada and Katherine Zdunic and Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner and Raquel Alves de Oliveira and Liz van Wagtendonk and Vincent von Dosky and Teja Kattenborn",
year = "2025",
month = okt,
day = "26",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115027",
language = "Nederlands",
publisher = "Elsevier",
address = "België,
type = "Other"
}

Auteurs

Clemens Mosig
Janusch Vajna-Jehle
Miguel D. Mahecha
Yan Cheng
Henrik Hartmann
David Montero
Samuli Junttila
Stéphanie Horion
Mirela Beloiu Schwenke
Michael J. Koontz
Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud
Stephen Adu-Bredu
Djamil Al-Halbouni
Muhammad Ali
Matthew Allen
Jan Altman
Lot Amorós
Claudia Angiolini
Rasmus Astrup
Hassan Awada
Caterina Barrasso
Harm Bartholomeus
Pieter S. A. Beck
Aurora Bozzini
Joshua Braun-Wimmer
Benjamin Brede
Fabio Marcelo Breunig
Stefano Brugnaro
Allan Buras
Vicente Burchard-Levine
Jesús Julio Camarero
Anna Candotti
Luka Capuder
Erik Carrieri
Mauro Centritto
Gherardo Chirici
Myriam Cloutier
Dhemerson Conciani
KC Cushman
James W. Dalling
Phuong D. Dao
Jan Dempewolf
Martin Denter
Marcel Dogotari
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado
Simon Ecke
Jana Eichel
Anette Eltner
André Fabbri
Maximilian Fabi
Fabian Fassnacht
Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira
Fabian Jörg Fischer
Julian Frey
Annett Frick
Jose Fuentes
Selina Ganz
Matteo Garbarino
Milton García
Matthias Gassilloud
Antonio Gazol
Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo
Kilian Gerberding
Marziye Ghasemi
Francesca Giannetti
Jeffrey Gillan
Roy Gonzalez
Carl Gosper
Terry Greene
Konrad Greinwald
Stuart Grieve
André Große-Stoltenberg
Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez
Anna Göritz
Peter Hajek
David Hedding
Jan Hempel
Stien Heremans
Melvin Hernández
Marco Heurich
Eija Honkavaara
Bernhard Höfle
Robert Jackisch
Tommaso Jucker
Jesse M. Kalwij
Sebastian Kepfer Rojas
Pratima Khatri-Chhetri
Till Kleinebecker
Hans-Joachim Klemmt
Tomáš Klouček
Niko Koivumäki
Nagesh Kolagani
Jan Komárek
Kirill Korznikov
Bartłomiej Kraszewski
Stefan Kruse
Robert Krüger
Helga Kuechly
Ivan H.Y. Kwong
Etienne Laliberté
Liam Langan
Hooman Latifi
Claudia Leal-Medina
Jan R.K. Lehmann
Linyuan Li
Emily Lines
Maciej Lisiewicz
Javier Lopatin
Arko Lucieer
Antonia Ludwig
Marvin Ludwig
Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa
Qin Ma
Nicolas Mansuy
José Manuel Peña
Giovanni Marino
Michael Maroschek
M.Pilar Martín
Darío Martín-Benito
Pavan Matham
Sabrina Mazzoni
Fabio Meloni
Annette Menzel
Hanna Meyer
Mojdeh Miraki
Gerardo Moreno
Daniel Moreno-Fernández
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Mirko Mälicke
Jakobus Möhring
Jana Müllerova
Setti Sridhara Naidu
Davide Nardi
Paul Neumeier
Mihai Daniel Nita
Roope Näsi
Lars Oppgenoorth
Sagynbek Orunbaev
Melanie Palmer
Thomas Paul
Mattis Pfenning
Alastair Potts
Gudala Laxmi Prasanna
Suzanne M. Prober
Stefano Puliti
Antonio J. Pérez-Luque
Oscar Pérez-Priego
Chris Reudenbach
Jesús Revuelto
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Philippe Roberge
Pier Paolo Roggero
Christian Rossi
Nadine Katrin Ruehr
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Christian Mestre Runge
Gabriele Giuseppe Antonio Satta
Bruno Scanu
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Felix Schiefer
Christopher Schiller
Jacob Schladebach
Marie-Therese Schmehl
Jonathan Schmid
Tristan Alexander Schmidt
Selina Schwarz
Rupert Seidl
Thomas Seifert
Ana Seifert Barba
Elham Shafeian
Aurélie Shapiro
Leopoldo de Simone
Hormoz Sohrabi
Salim Soltani
Laura Sotomayor
Ben Sparrow
Benjamin S.C. Steer
Matt Stenson
Benjamin Stöckigt
Yanjun Su
Juha Suomalainen
Elisa Tamudo
Mauro J. Tognetti Barbieri
Enrico Tomelleri
Michele Torresani
Katerina Trepekli
Saif Ullah
Sami Ullah
Josefine Umlauft
Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez
Can Vatandaslar
Vladimir Visacki
Michele Volpi
Vicente Vásquez
Christine Wallis
Ben Weinstein
Hannah Weiser
Serge Wich
Tagle Casapia Ximena
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada
Katherine Zdunic
Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner
Raquel Alves de Oliveira
Liz van Wagtendonk
Vincent von Dosky
Teja Kattenborn