Forest Persistence v0

projects/forestdatapartnership/assets/community_forests/ForestPersistence_2020
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Catalog Owner
Forest Data Partnership
Dataset Availability
2020-01-01T00:00:00Z–2020-12-31T23:59:59Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.Image("projects/forestdatapartnership/assets/community_forests/ForestPersistence_2020")

Description

Note: This dataset is not yet peer-reviewed. Please see the GitHub README associated with this model for more information.

This image provides a per-pixel score (in [0, 1]) that indicates whether the pixel area is occupied by undisturbed forest in year 2020.

These scores are provided at 30 meter resolution, and have been generated by a convergence of evidence approach to combining multiple forest cover data sets into a level of continuous support for the presence of undisturbed forest, defined as naturally regenerating forest with "no clearly visible indications of human activities and the ecological processes are not significantly disturbed" or forests "predominantly composed of trees established through natural regeneration." The numerical support, called ForestPersistence, is created from an ensemble of existing datasets selected for their ability to describe forest disturbance and management history, consistent with the definition.

For more information about this dataset, see the README on Google's Forest Data Partnership GitHub site. For more information about the Forest Data Partnership, visit the Forest Data Partnership website.

Limitations: Geographic scope is limited to +/- 80 degrees latitude and to calendar year 2020. Not all geographic regions are equally represented. For example, China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and other countries lack regionally specific datasets in the ensemble. Boreal forest may not be well represented. This dataset is built from existing datasets, and any limitations and errors associated with those datasets may be present. Landsat TimeLapse is a Google developed product that has not been used with LandTrendr previously. A probability sample of these types of forest cover coincident with the year 2020 is not available, making accuracy difficult to assess.

Bands

Resolution
30 meters

Bands

Name Min Max Description
value 0 1

A value that indicates numerical support for the pixel being occupied by undisturbed forest in year 2020.

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

This dataset is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and requires the following attribution: "This dataset is produced by Google for the Forest Data Partnership."

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2015-present]. See the Sentinel Data Legal Notice.

Citations

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

Map.setCenter(-123.296, 43.8246, 12);

var forestPersistence = ee.Image(
    'projects/forestdatapartnership/assets/community_forests/ForestPersistence_2020');

Map.addLayer(forestPersistence, {}, 'ForestPersistence');
Map.addLayer(
    forestPersistence.gt(0.95).selfMask(), {palette: 'green'},
    'Persistant forest');
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