/tmf_sepal

Tropical Moist Forest wrapper for SEPAL

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TMF wrapper for SEPAL

License: MIT

About the module

This module provides an interface to clip and download the TMF product (Source: EC JRC) inside SEPAL

Inputs:

  • start year
  • end year
  • AOI

Outputs:

  • annual degradation
  • annual deforestation

About TMF

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre developed this new dataset on forest cover change in tropical moist forests (TMF) using 38 years of Landsat time series. The wall-to-wall maps at 0.09 ha resolution (30m) depict the TMF extent and the related disturbances (deforestation and degradation), and post-deforestation recovery (or forest regrowth) through two complementary thematic layers: a transition map and an annual change collection over the period 1990-2019. Each disturbance (deforestation or degradation) is characterized by its timing and intensity. Deforestation refers to a change in land cover (from forest to non-forested land) when degradation refers to a temporary disturbance in a forest remaining forested such as selective logging, fires and unusual weather events (hurricanes, droughts, blowdown).

For any use, please cite the source dataset:

C. Vancutsem, F. Achard, J.-F. Pekel, G. Vieilledent, S. Carboni, D. Simonetti, J. Gallego, L.E.O.C. Aragão, R. Nasi. Long-term (1990-2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics. Science Advances

TMF Explorer

The Tropical Moist Forest Explorer is a web-mapping tool that shows the dataset and allows users to navigate the tropics visualizing the main layers of the Tropical Moist Forest dataset without installing any software.
We recommend its use to explore the TMF product