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The detection of wood decay could potentially lead to improvements in forest management and could help in reducing economic losses. In this study, airborne hyperspectral data were used to detect the presence of wood decay in the trees in two forest areas located in Etnedal (dataset I) and Gran (dataset II) municipalities, in southern Norway. The hyperspectral data used consisted of images acquired by two sensors operating in the VNIR and SWIR parts of the spectrum. Corresponding ground reference data were collected in Etnedal using a cut-to-length harvester while in Gran, field measurements were collected manually. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data were used to detect the individual tree crowns (ITCs) in both sites. Different approaches to deal with pixels inside each ITC were considered: in particular, pixels were either aggregated to a unique value per ITC (i.e., mean, weighted mean, median, centermost pixel) or analyzed in an unaggregated way. Multiple classification methods were explored to predict rot presence: logistic regression, feed forward neural networks, and convolutional neural networks. The results showed that wood decay could be detected, even if with accuracy varying among the two datasets. The best results on the Etnedal dataset were obtained using a convolution neural network with the first five components of a principal component analysis as input (OA = 65.5%), while on the Gran dataset, the best result was obtained using LASSO with logistic regression and data aggregated using the weighted mean (OA = 61.4%). 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