Extended Data Fig. 1: An example showing previous manual forest delineations. | Nature Climate Change

Extended Data Fig. 1: An example showing previous manual forest delineations.

From: Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

Extended Data Fig. 1

The red lines are manually labelled forest boundaries from the Rwanda national forest map of 2012 (ref. 35). a, Several patches which would qualify for the used forest definition were missed by the manual delineation (yellow lines). Also, some bare areas inside forest patches (cyan line) were considered as part of forests. b, Our results are shown in green, highlighting the improvements over the previous method. Shapefiles for national forest cover map from RFA. Credit: background photographs, Swedesurvey.

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