Forest loss, and why.
Open Forest Watch finds forest loss across the tropical belt and attributes its cause, for the EU deforestation regulation. Access is by invitation.
A cleared hectare has to be explained.
The EU deforestation regulation asks companies to show that what they import was not grown on recently cleared forest. An alert that trees are gone is not enough. Buyers need to know what removed them.
How it works.
- Detect
- Sentinel-2 imagery is read together with the GLAD and RADD forest loss alerts.
- Attribute
- Each loss is given a likely cause, so a cleared plot can be told apart from fire or natural change.
- Report
- The result is built around what the regulation asks for, so it can go straight into a due diligence file.
Figures.
Who it serves.
- Companies importing commodities covered by the EU deforestation regulation.
- Organisations monitoring tropical forests.
