Global Forest Change
The Global Forest Change Product provides results from time-series analysis of 654,178 Landsat images in characterizing forest extent and change product. For definitions of Forest extent and change refer to Hansen et al., 2013.
Product Details:
- Spatial Coverage: Global
- Temporal Coverage: 2000-2013
- Resolution: 1 arc-second per pixel (approx. 30m per pixel at the Equator)
- Projection: GCS WGS84 datum
- Data Type: 8-bit unsigned integer
- Data Format: GeoTIFF
Citation:
Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change." Science 342 (15 November): 850-53. Data available on-line from: http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest.
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