The Amazon rainforest, a vital global ecosystem, is facing significant threats from the loss of intact forest through deforestation and degradation. This report provides an overview of recent forest changes in the Amazon, focusing on Brazil, the country with the largest portion of the Amazon....

This technical report presents the assessment protocol for forest/non-forest interpretation from high spatial resolution images that was used to estimate the accuracy of the second version of the Global Forest Cover map for the year 2020 (GFC2020). GFC2020 is a novel spatial representation of...

This document presents the second version of the Global map of Forest Cover for the year 2020 at 10 m spatial resolution (GFC2020 v2 dated 7 December 2024). This product is based on the combination of several global land cover / land use data sets and provides a spatially explicit representation...

The JRC developed and updates the Global Forest Cover map for the year 2020 (GFC2020) as a support tool for the implementation of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, in short EUDR). The report serves stakeholders, foremost operators and traders...

This document presents the input data, methodology and a preliminary assessment of the first version of the Global Forest Cover map for year 2020 at 10m spatial resolution (GFC 2020, version 1, dated 07 December 2023). GFC 2020 builds on several global data sets and provides a harmonized,...

Tropical forests are fundamental for the mitigation of global warming and for containing immense biodiversity, thus the knowledge about where, how, and why they change is of crucial importance in order to find countermeasures that can protect the remaining forests for all countries of the Amazon...

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth's biodiversity and 16% of the world's total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon forest has already lost up to 20% of its original area since the 1970s and is under constant...

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth's biodiversity and 16% of the world's total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon forest has already lost up to 20% of its original area since the 1970s and is under constant...