In recent years more and more deforested areas have become evident. Forests are our green lungs, create habitats for a diverse world of flora and fauna, provide timber, and protect against floods and slope collapse. How large is the loss caused by forest die-off and tree removal? Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are addressing this question with the help of earth observation data.

The release includes a raster dataset showing forest canopy cover loss (FCCL) in Germany at a monthly resolution from September 2017 to September 2024 dervied from Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat-8/9 [1]. In addition, we provide vector data showing the forest cover loss statistics at administrative level [2].

The datasets are available in our EOC Download Service [3] and offered as map layers [4] [5].