 Tree species diversity is a key parameter to describe forest ecosystems. We examined the suitability of 8-band worldview, two satellite data for the identification of 10 tree species in a temperate forest in Austria. We performed a random forest, RF, classification, object-based and pixel-based, using spectra of manually delineated sunlit regions of tree crowns. This article was authored by Tatjana Kukul, Marcus Immitzer, and Clement Atzberger.