Approximately 27 football fields' worth of forests are lost every minute around the globe. That's a massive annual loss of 15 billion trees.
Scientists use the National Land Cover Database to comprehensively view landscape changes. It transforms satellite images into detailed maps of different features.
However, they only work for one time period. They may need extra information to differentiate forest changes from other land cover changes. In this latest study, the researcher's combined approach created the NLCD 1986-2019 forest disturbance product. It displays the most recent forest disturbance date within two to three-year intervals between 1986 and 2019.
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