Any voluntary operation ending a land's forest destination requires prior administrative authorization. Clearing operations below a department-specific threshold of 0.5 to 4 hectares are exempt from this requirement. The dataset was last updated on July 1, 2021, by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières.
Use Cases
- Map areas of authorized deforestation based on the regulatory threshold.
- Analyze land-use change patterns from forest to other uses.
- Assess regulatory compliance by comparing clearing operations to authorization requirements.
- Model the spatial distribution of exempted small-scale clearing operations.
Strengths
- Explicitly defines the regulatory threshold for authorization exemption (0.5 to 4 hectares).
- Provides a clear operational definition of 'clearing' from a legal perspective.
- Managed by a recognized geological and mining research organization (BRGM).
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2021-07-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Freshness
- Last updated 2021-07-01 00:00:00.
- Geography
- Gers, France