Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-321-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-321-2024
Data description article
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15 Jan 2024
Data description article |  | 15 Jan 2024

Annual maps of forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon from analyses of PALSAR and MODIS images

Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Hao Tang, Ralph Dubayah, Russell Doughty, Diyou Liu, Fang Liu, Yosio Shimabukuro, Egidio Arai, Xinxin Wang, and Berrien Moore III

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Forest definition has two major biophysical parameters, i.e., canopy height and canopy coverage. However, few studies have assessed forest cover maps in terms of these two parameters at a large scale. Here, we assessed the annual forest cover maps in the Brazilian Amazon using 1.1 million footprints of canopy height and canopy coverage. Over 93 % of our forest cover maps are consistent with the FAO forest definition, showing the high accuracy of these forest cover maps in the Brazilian Amazon.
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