Regional-Scale Forest Management Maps for the Continental United States

One main challenge in environmental and ecological research is to map land use, the human intent to modify the earth's cover, using satellite data. We have mapped forest management, a land use, in the southeastern and northwestern United States, 1.5 million square kilometers, at high spatial. This is a novel study using spectral time series analysis, expert derived training data and a random forest classifier to map forest management, calculate probability and uncertainty of class membership.