Tree Canopy Cover Loss Monthly - Landsat-8/Sentinel-2 - Germany, 2018-2021

The product shows tree canopy cover loss in Germany between January 2018 and April 2021 at monthly temporal and 10 m spatial resolution. The basic principle behind this map is to compute monthly composites of the disturbance index (DI, Healey et al. 2005), a spectral index sensitive to forest disturbance, from all available Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data with less than 80 % cloud cover. These monthly composites are then compared to a median composite of the DI for 2017, which serves as a reference. After applying a threshold to the difference image, the time series of detected losses is checked for consistency. Only losses recorded continuously in all observations of a pixel until the end of the time series are considered. The dataset does not differentiate between the drivers of the losses. It depicts areas of natural disturbances (windthrow, fire, droughts, insect infestation) as well as sanitation and salvage logging, and regular forest harvest. The full description of the method and results can be found in Thonfeld et al. (2022).
Suggested Data Citation
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (2023): Tree Canopy Cover Loss Monthly - Landsat-8/Sentinel-2 - Germany, 2018-2021. https://doi.org/10.15489/z0g96v5kwg14
Coverage
Geographic Boundaries
North:	54.99°
West:	5.99°
East:	15.02°
South:	47.30°
Time Period
Start date:	2018-01-01
End date:	2021-04-30
More Information
Keywords:	Forest, Canopy Cover Loss, Drought, Disturbance Index, Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, Germany, opendatac
Contact:	Frank.Thonfeld@dlr.de
Access / Use Restriction:	License
Data Use Guidelines	Creative Commons BY 4.0
Links
Mission / Project Information
Reference	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030562 Thonfeld, F.; Gessner, U.; Holzwarth, S.; Kriese, J.; da Ponte, E.; Huth, J.; Kuenzer, C. A First Assessment of Canopy Cover Loss in Germany’s Forests after the 2018–2020 Drought Years. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 562.
DOI (of Dataset)	https://doi.org/10.15489/z0g96v5kwg14 Digital Object Identifier
Downloading Data
HTTP Download (Tree Canopy Cover Loss)	https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/TCCL/files/ HTTP Download
Data Visualization Service
Tree Canopy Cover Loss Germany 2018-2021	https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms? TREE_CANOPY_COVER_LOSS_P1M
EOC Geoservice Map Context (eoc:tcclde)	https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/maps/eoc:tcclde EOC Geoservice Map Context