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FORMSpoT maps forest disturbances at 1.5m resolution across France

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Researchers have developed FORMSpoT, a novel system for monitoring forest disturbances with unprecedented 1.5 m resolution across France. This system utilizes satellite imagery from SPOT-6/7 and a transformer model (PVTv2) to map canopy height changes annually. The findings reveal that small-scale disturbances, often missed by coarser resolution systems, constitute a significant portion of forest changes, highlighting distinct disturbance regimes across different French forest types and capturing the impact of events like the bark beetle crisis. AI

IMPACT Enables finer-scale ecological monitoring and more accurate assessment of forest health and disturbance dynamics.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper detailing a new methodology and dataset for forest disturbance monitoring. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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FORMSpoT maps forest disturbances at 1.5m resolution across France

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Martin Schwartz, Fajwel Fogel, Nikola Besic, Damien Robert, Louis Geist, Jean-Pierre Renaud, Jean-Matthieu Monnet, Clemens Mosig, C\'edric Vega, Alexandre d'Aspremont, Loic Landrieu, Philippe Ciais ·

    FORMSpoT: Revealing Fine-Scale Forest Disturbances from Nation-Wide 1.5 m Forest Canopy Height Time Series

    arXiv:2512.17021v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current large-scale satellite-based forest disturbance monitoring systems operate at 10-30~m resolution, too coarse to detect changes at the scale of individual trees and resulting in a systematic underestimation of forest distu…

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