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Eastern Europe's Forest Cover Dynamics from 1985 to 2012

Presented maps provide consistent quantification of forest cover dynamic within Eastern Europe from 1985 to 2012 based on Landsat image archive. All datasets provided in Albers Equal Area projection with pixel size 30x30m. Forest cover dynamics types shows areas of stable forest/non-forest and certain forest dynamics (forest cover loss, forest cover gain, gain followed by loss, etc.). Forest cover loss date provided by interval (1986-1988, 1989-2000, 2001-2006, 2007-2012). In case of repeated forest clearing, only the date of first loss event is recorded. For the forest cover gain, date (2000 or 2012) represent year when tree canopy cover reached our forest definition (49%). For questions and additional data requests please contact Peter Potapov potapov@umd.edu

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Product Details

Spatial Coverage: Eastern Europe
Temporal Coverage: 1985-2012
Resolution: 30m
Projection: Albers Equal Area projection
Data Type: 8-bit unsigned integer
Data Format:IMAGINE Image

Download Link
http://glad.geog.umd.edu/europe/
Citation

Potapov P.V., Turubanova S.A., Tyukavina A., Krylov A.M., McCarty J.L., Radeloff V.C., Hansen M.C Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2014 [doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.027]

Dataset creator
Peter Potapov

Priniciple Investigator: Jessica McCarty