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Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
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04 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2025

Forestlines in Italian mountains are shifting upward: detection and monitoring using satellite time series

Lorena Baglioni, Donato Morresi, Matteo Garbarino, Carlo Urbinati, Emanuele Lingua, Raffaella Marzano, and Alessandro Vitali

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We propose a method for the automated detection of the uppermost forest lines with the aim of supporting their monitoring through a replicable mapping that can be adopted in different geographical contexts and at different scales of analysis according to the available datasets. We adopted a trend analysis of Landsat-based wetness and greenness index time series of the last 40 years, detecting an increase in forest cover along the forest line ecotone in both the Italian Alps and the Apennines.
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