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Forests play an important role in water conservation in this region, and the security of upstream forests forms the foundation downstream water and food security. However, a big challenge is to effectively monitor the dynamics of the forest in this region. Thus, we used the LandTrendr spectral-temporal segmentation algorithm combined with 8203 scenes of multi-source remote sensing data to study the forest change footprint in the upper Indus Valley. The overall accuracy of LandTrendr extraction for forest disturbance and recovery was 86.01%, and the Kappa coefficient was 0.73. The results showed the following: (1) From 1990 to 2020, the area of forest recovery was 1.01% more than that of disturbance, 70% of disturbance occurred between 1990 and 2001, and 60% of recovery occurred between 1999 and 2012. (2) Although the overall trend of forest disturbance and recovery was balanced, there were significant differences in forest management status among the different regions. Nepal has the highest forest stability, India has the largest area of forest disturbance, and Pakistan and China have the largest areas of forest recovery. (3) India\u2019s Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are the two provinces with the largest disturbed areas, primarily due to grazing, fires, and commercial tree planting. Pakistan\u2019s North-West Frontier, Azad Kashmir, and China\u2019s Tibet Ali region were major contributors to the recovery, which was driven by afforestation policies in both countries. This study provides an important data base and monitoring method for planning land and forest use in Indus Valley countries, protecting fragile environments, and promoting policies for the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030744","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]],"date-time":"2022-02-06T20:38:40Z","timestamp":1644179920000},"page":"744","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["The Forest Change Footprint of the Upper Indus Valley, from 1990 to 2020"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9481-2397","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinrong","family":"Yan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5641-0813","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juanle","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"China-Pakistan Earth Science Research Center, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan"},{"name":"Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6550","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0608998104","article-title":"Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation","volume":"104","author":"Bala","year":"2007","journal-title":"Proc. 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