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.
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
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.
Priniciple Investigator: Matthew Hansen
Project Information
| PROJECT NAME | Principal Investigator | INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|
| Establishing a Global Forest Monitoring Capability Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data Sets | Matthew Hansen | University of Maryland, College Park |