Status and trend of Amazon forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2022

This document describes the design process, definitions, and algorithmic implementation for an assessment of forest fragmentation across the Amazon. This study follows a request raised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to conduct an assessment on the state of the forests in the Amazon Region within the context of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization and the EU-funded Amazonia+ Programme. The FAO-provided forest cover maps were analysed for forest fragmentation using a local neighbourhood of 100 km2. Spatially explicit fragmentation maps and statistical summaries are derived for the years 2001, 2014, and 2022. The status maps are complemented by a fragmentation change map and statistics covering the time frame 2001 to 2022.