Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world's tropical dry woodlands

These datasets provide maps of deforestation frontier classsification into three themed typologies (severity, spatio temporal patterns and development stage) and archetypes of major frontier patterns. We do this for tropical dry woodland worldwide, for the period of 2000 to 2020, at ~3-km spatial resolution (Coordinate System: WGS_1984_Mollweide, float format). Datasets used for this analysis are publicly available, forest cover and loss data are available at: https://data.globalforestwatch.org/. Deforestation frontiers metrics were calculated and typologies developed in RStudio 1.3.1056. We share the code used to develop frontier metrics, frontier typologies, and archetypes, together with a sample dataset summarized from the originally publicly available dataset.

Further details of the datasets can be found in Buchadas et. al. (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00886-9  

For further questions or issues with the datasets, please contact Ana Buchadas at ana.buchadas@geo.hu-berlin.de.