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European Forest Areas based on Copernicus data

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Prod-ID: DAT-216-en

Created 30 Jul 2019 Published 31 Jul 2019 Last modified 31 Jul 2019

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

These data sets show the European forest area in 2012 and in 2015 at 100m spatial resolution, covering EEA39 countries. They are based on Copernicus HRL forest products at 20m spatial resolution and comply with the FAO forest definition (i.e. minimum mapping unit of 0.5 ha, minimum coverage of 10% and excluding land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use). After the selection of those pixels identified as forest by the HRL forest products and also compliant with FAO criteria, the forest area dataset at 100m was computed as a Boolean product (i.e. forest / non-forest). The value 1 (forest area) correspond to the pixels where forest is the major coverage; otherwise the pixel value is 0 (non-forest area).

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European Forest Areas based on Copernicus data

Forest Area 2012 (ZIP archive)
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Forest Area 2015 (ZIP archive)
82.72 MB Download file
Forest Area 2012 - INSPIRE Metadata
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Forest Area 2015 - INSPIRE Metadata
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Reporting obligations (ROD)

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Relation:

Derived data set: Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI

Geographic accuracy:

100 m

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Data sources

TThese datasets are a combination of the following Copernicus HRL Forest products: Tree Cover Density (TCD), the Forest Type (FTY) and the Forest Additional Support Layer (FDASL) datasets.

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC-ULS)

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Geographic coverage

Albania Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom