Abstract:Abstract: Forest stand quality evaluation serves the entire process of forest management decision-making, supervision and management, and acceptance. In order to overcome the shortcomings of high cost and poor timeliness in the forest stand quality of the ground survey, a stand quality evaluation system was formed based on remote sensing data to improve the evaluation efficiency and promote the precise improvement of forest quality. This study is based on the Sentinel-2 data of the 2018 growing season in Xinmi, supplemented by digital elevation images. First, ground samples are selected. Then, the vegetation index, the texture index, and the disturbance index, three types of indicators closely related to forest quality, were extracted based on the Sentinel-2 images. The entropy method is used to calculate the weight of each indicator, and a remote sensing model for estimating forest stand quality is constructed. The stand quality results evaluated based on the survey data of samples were used as references to test the credibility of the model. Finally, the model is used to quantify Xinmi’s forest quality and propose follow-up management strategies. The weights of the second moment, contrast, and variance of the remote sensing evaluation indicators are relatively large. The stand quality results of the remote sensing evaluation are linearly fitted with the stand quality obtained from the samples, and the coefficient of determination R2 is 0.9861. The stand quality evaluation method based on remote sensing data is feasible, and in the stand quality evaluation system of remote sensing estimation, the three indexes of the second moment, contrast, and variance are the best for the classification of forest stand quality in Xinmi.