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To understand and quantify the impacts of increasing logging activities and climatic changes in the European Alps, accurate information on the occurrence and distribution of mountain pine stands is needed. While Earth observation provides up-to-date information on land cover, space-borne mapping of mountain pines is challenging as different coniferous species are spectrally similar, and small-structured patches may remain undetected due to the sensor\u2019s spatial resolution. This study uses multi-temporal optical imagery from PlanetScope (3 m) and Sentinel-2 (10 m) and combines them with additional features (e.g., textural statistics (homogeneity, contrast, entropy, spatial mean and spatial variance) from gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), topographic features (elevation, slope and aspect) and canopy height information) to overcome the present challenges in mapping mountain pine stands. Specifically, we assessed the influence of spatial resolution and feature space composition including the GLCM window size for textural features. The study site is covering the Sarntal Alps, Italy, a region known for large stands of mountain pine. Our results show that mountain pines can be accurately mapped (PlanetScope (90.96%) and Sentinel-2 (90.65%)) by combining all features. In general, Sentinel-2 can achieve comparable results to PlanetScope independent of the feature set composition, despite the lower spatial resolution. In particular, the inclusion of textural features improved the accuracy by +8% (PlanetScope) and +3% (Sentinel-2), whereas accuracy improvements of topographic features and canopy height were low. The derived map of mountain pines in the Sarntal Alps supports local forest management to monitor and assess recent and ongoing anthropogenic and climatic changes at the treeline. Furthermore, our study highlights the importance of freely available Sentinel-2 data and image-derived textural features to accurately map mountain pines in Alpine environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14133190","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,4]],"date-time":"2022-07-04T20:59:18Z","timestamp":1656968358000},"page":"3190","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Comparing PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 Imagery for Mapping Mountain Pines in the Sarntal Alps, Italy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Moritz","family":"R\u00f6sch","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of W\u00fcrzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of W\u00fcrzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany"}]},{"given":"Ruth","family":"Sonnenschein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Earth Observation, Eurac Research, Drususallee 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-9459-3725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sebastian","family":"Buchelt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of W\u00fcrzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6626-3052","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tobias","family":"Ullmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of W\u00fcrzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Leuschner, C., and Ellenberg, H. 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