Andi1974/Forest-degradation-monitoring: Delta-rNBR Forest Canopy Disturbance Mapping Approach

New script as Google shifted to new (Landsat) data collections and removed the old collections

• Surface Reflectance (SR) - Top of Atmosphere (ToA) Combination (SR data with 'simpleCloudScore' band coming from ToA data)

Purposes:

• Mapping all kind of canopy disturbances (natural or human induced) within (semi-)evergreen forests
• Disturbances can be interpreted as forest degradation events (after threshold -e.g. 0.05- is decided to separate signal from noise)
• In order to separate natural from human disturbances we recommend manual screening of the data by an experienced human interpreter
• Close to real time monitoring of canopy cover changes possible