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Hansen Forest Cover Loss 2000-2019: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar

This update of gross forest cover loss includes new 2019 loss-year and multispectral imagery layers. Relative to the version 1.0 product our method has been modified in numerous ways, and the new update should be seen as part of a transition to a future version 2.0 that is more consistent over the entire 2000-onward period.

The statistical analysis of forest cover loss is performed by Global Forest Watch.

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Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Forest classifications
  • Forest cover
  • Forest policy and administration
  • SDG15 Life on Land
Language
  • English
Use limitations This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Use the following credit when these data are displayed: Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA Use the following credit when these data are cited: 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.
Dataset reference date January 1, 2000
Temporal extent's start date January 1, 2000
Temporal extent's end date January 1, 2019
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
West bounding coordinates 90.0
East bounding coordinates 110.0
South bounding coordinates 0.0
North bounding coordinates 30.0
Spatial Reference System WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Positional Accuracy In this data set, “tree cover” is defined as all vegetation greater than 5 meters in height, and may take the form of natural forests or plantations across a range of canopy densities. “Loss” indicates the removal or mortality of tree cover and can be due to a variety of factors, including mechanical harvesting, fire, disease, or storm damage. As such, “loss” does not equate to deforestation. Due to variation in research methodology and date of content, tree cover, loss, and gain data sets cannot be compared accurately against each other. Accordingly, “net” loss cannot be calculated by subtracting figures for tree cover gain from tree cover loss, and current (post-2000) tree cover cannot be determined by subtracting figures for annual tree cover loss from year 2000 tree cover.
Attribute Accuracy The data is encoded as either 0 (no loss) or else a value in the range 1–19, representing loss detected primarily in the year 2001–2019, respectively.
Logical Consistency Please see the associated journal article (Hansen et al., Science 2013) at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/850
Process Step Please see the associated journal article (Hansen et al., Science 2013) at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/850
Lineage 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.; Global Forest Watch (https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/?mapMenu=eyJtZW51U2VjdGlvbiI6ImRhdGFzZXRzIiwiZGF0YXNldENhdGVnb3J5IjoibGFuZFVzZSJ9)
Responsible party M. C. Hansen Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: mhansen@umd.edu
License Creative Commons Attribution
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Date uploaded December 17, 2020, 20:51 (UTC)
Date modified January 21, 2021, 18:04 (UTC)