🌳 Welcome to my new deforestation mapping tutorial! 🌳 In this tutorial, you'll learn how to map deforestation using Global Forest Change data (2001-2023) from GLAD. Here's what we'll cover: 1. Fetching forest cover and tree loss data for your region of interest. 2. Reclassifying raster files into periods. 3. Creating powerful maps with tidyterra and ggplot2. Ready to dive in? Check out the full tutorial here: https://lnkd.in/e9xT3M6U #DeforestationMapping #GIS #RemoteSensing #DataScience #Tidyterra #Ggplot2 #EnvironmentalAwareness #MappingTutorial
Mapping deforestation with R
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Recently I did a talk on deforestation and thought: “I wonder if Milos Popovic, PhD has a resource on this?” 😁 Thanks for creating this tutorial!
Brian LaPointe
4mo
How much of your coverage is not deforestation but forest refreshment - changing the old forest for new? The picture shows mountain pine beetle-killed old pine forests are now growing healthy young forests. The agriculture area in the foreground has had prescribed burning to keep the trees off grassy areas. Is that deforestation? Do you count wildfires as deforestation? o
In Galicia, my home region more than a third of forest cover was destroyed in the last twenty years? 😭 It shouldn't be a surprise with the amount of sommer fires (many times provoked) and timber industry... but still it is.. So sad
Chelsey Davitt
4mo
Thank you Milos Popovic, PhD for the free and amazing tutorials! As an early career GIS Analyst, these tutorials are so helpful to expand my skills, not to mention they highlight issues that always could use more attention.
Luis Barqueira
4mo
Awesome.
Senior forest researcher in forest ecology, active as change agent in forest monitoring, collaboration and innovation.
4moMaps are powerful, but it is always important to assess the quality of these types of change analysis if you plan to make quantitative analysis. The satellite sensors used by GLAD have improved technically over the years. Without reference data it is impossible to know if the observed change is real change (on the ground) or just an effect of change of sensors. Another thing, tree loss does not always mean than an area is deforested (at least not in Northern Europe). In Sweden most of the tree loss mapped by GLAD is due to logging and these areas are always replanted or naturally regenerated. Trees grow slowly in the North and therefore GLAD has problems to map forest gain in these areas.