Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
A new 10-meter resolution map shows which of the world's forests are natural, planted, or farmed, and how they are changing over time
Key points
- Protecting the planet's forests starts with a simple question: what type of forest are we looking at?
- Today, Google DeepMind and Google Research, together with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), are releasing Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020, a global map that categorizes every 10-by-10-meter patch of land on Earth into six distinct forest and land-use types, a key baseline for the EU's deforestation regulation.
- Last year, we jointly released Natural Forests of the World 2020, a 10-meter resolution global map that separated natural forests from all other tree cover.
- How ForTy classifies the world's forests
Sources (1)
- [1]Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest typesGoogle DeepMind Blog · Oct 22, 02:30 PM
A new 10-meter resolution map shows which of the world's forests are natural, planted, or farmed, and how they are changing over time
Protecting the planet's forests starts with a simple question: what type of forest are we looking at?
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