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Tropical Tree Cover

This layer displays tree extent at the ten-meter scale and tree cover at the half hectare scale to enable accurate monitoring of trees in urban areas, agricultural lands, and in open canopy and dry forest ecosystems.

Created
Oct 10, 2024
Last Updated
Oct 10, 2024
Caution:
  • This dataset uses a different definition of a tree and a different definition of tree cover than does Hansen et al. (2013).
  • This dataset defines a tree according to both the height and crown diameter. Woody vegetation higher than 5 meters regardless of crown diameter, or between 3 and 5 meters with a minimum crown diameter of 5 meters is considered a tree. This definition is different from Hansen et al. (2013) which defines a tree as any vegetation at least 5 meters in height.
  • The tropical tree cover dataset does not disambiguate plantation trees from non-plantation trees.
  • Analyses or statistics derived over spatial regions smaller than 0.5 ha may not be accurate.
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