umd_regional_primary_forest_2001
Information about umd_regional_primary_forest_2001
umd_regional_primary_forest_2001
created_on
2023-05-04T13:11:58.897350
updated_on
2024-10-04T16:27:38.844678
spatial_resolution
30
resolution_description
30 × 30 meters
geographic_coverage
Pan-Tropical
update_frequency
scale
regional
citation
Turubanova, S., Potapov, P.V., Tyukavina, A. and Hansen, M.C., 2018. Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters, 13(7), p.074028. Accessed through Global Forest Watch on [date]. www.globalforestwatch.org.
title
Primary Forests
source
Turubanova, S., Potapov, P.V., Tyukavina, A. and Hansen, M.C., 2018. [Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia](http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c/meta). Environmental Research Letters, 13(7), p.074028.
license
data_language
English
overview
Primary forests are among the most biodiverse forests, providing a multitude of ecosystem services, making them crucial to monitor for national land use planning and carbon accounting. This data set defines primary forests as "mature natural humid tropical forest cover that has not been completely cleared and regrown in recent history." Researchers classified Landsat images into primary forest data, using a separate algorithm for each region.
function
This data set maps the extent of primary forests in the global pan-tropical regions in 2001.
cautions
key_restrictions
tags
Land Cover, Country data
why_added
This data is the most up to date primary forest layer published by UMD, and covers more regions than previous primary forest data sets do.
learn_more
https://glad.umd.edu/dataset/primary-forest-humid-tropics
id
c2ca1553-730d-45d6-948e-843398bbc22e
Is downloadable?
Yes
Versions
v201901