TropForest: Harmonized Satellite Imagery for 2009-2010 Tropical Forest Assessment

2009 and 2010 satellite data acquisitions from ALOS, GEOSAT-1, and KOMPSAT-2 were harmonized by the European Space Agency (ESA) to support a 2010 global forest assessment. The project delivered ortho-rectified imagery for 1,866 sites at 1-degree intersections across Tropical Latin America and Tropical South/Southeast Asia, covering 94.7% of its target. This dataset was created for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to establish deforestation benchmark rates.

Use Cases

• Establishing regional deforestation benchmark rates based on the 2010 forest assessment data.
• Analyzing tropical forest cover change using harmonized, ortho-rectified optical imagery from multiple satellites.
• Supporting land-use and forest monitoring models for Tropical Latin America and Tropical South/Southeast Asia.

Strengths

• Covers 1,866 specific geographic sites at 1-degree lat/long intersections.
• Imagery is harmonized and pre-processed (ortho-rectified) for ready-to-use analysis.
• Combines data from three distinct satellite systems (ALOS, GEOSAT-1, KOMPSAT-2).

Limitations

• Last updated 2011-08-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected tropical regions.

Provenance

Source

European Space Agency (ESA)

Collection Method

Harmonized ortho-rectified/pre-processed imagery geo-database created from satellite acquisitions.

Time Range

2009-2010

Freshness

Last updated 2011-08-09 00:00:00

Geography

Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China)