Calculating deforestation rate for selected Tropical Forest sites🌳📈

Goal:

to compare deforestation rates of the REDD+ research sites and their vicinities over the period of 2009-2022

Data:

• 'Annual change' products belonging to JRC Tropical Moist Forests initiative [1], disributed in a TIFF format
• research sites' boundaries supplied with the information on the year of monitoring start, in a Shapefile format

Research area & time:

8 research sites located in the Tropical Forest, in northwestern part of Brazil

Processing steps:

1. Initial preparation
2. Calculating the deforestation rate
3. Visualizing example research area's deforestation characteristics

Sources:

[1] Joint Research Centre Tropical Moist Forest - Data Users Guide (v1) available at: https://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/static/tmf/TMF_DataUsersGuide.pdf

Prepared by: Aleksandra Radecka
e-mail: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandraradecka/