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The study area was located in a Norway spruce-dominated forest estate in southeastern Norway. We interpolated 11-year DSM changes into a 10 m \u00d7 10 m raster, and averaged these changes per forest stand. Based on threshold values for DSM decreases we classified the pixels and stands into the categories \u201cclear-cut\u201d and \u201cnot clear-cut\u201d, and compared this to a complete record of logged stands during 2000\u20132011. The classification accuracy was moderate or fairly good. A correct detection was achieved for 59%\u201367% of the clear-cut stands. Omission errors were most common, occurring in 33%\u201342% of the stands. Commission errors were found in 13%\u201321% of the clear-cut stands. The results obtained for X-band SRTM were only marginally better than for C-band. 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