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Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020 v1

This is a mirror of Forest Typology 2020 (v1), a global 10 m resolution map of forest typology using the 2020 baseline from NatureTrace. The dataset categorizes all land into six distinct forest categories.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: Forest typology class probabilities, 5 bands (primary forest, naturally regenerating forest, planted forest, plantation forest, tree crops and agroforestry), scaled 0-250 · Implicit 'other land' class (250 minus sum of the five bands) · Categorical forest typology map (argmax over six classes)
Coverage docs-verified: Global land between 65°S to 84°N, 613 MGRS cells · 2020
Resolution docs-verified: 10 m (spatial); single year (2020) baseline
Formats docs-verified: COG (Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF) · STAC 1.1 JSON catalog · STAC GeoParquet index
Access docs-verified: Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop; free, licence CC-BY-4.0 with attribution required

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Baseline forest-type screening for BNG habitat baseline mapping · Land-cover context for FRA catchment runoff parameter selection (forest vs. other land) · Early-stage site constraints screening for civils or drainage scoping (forest cover)
Audience llm-inferred: GIS analysts · ecologists · hydrologists · planners · drainage engineers

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Tiles do not form one combined array; CRS changes per UTM zone, so reprojection is needed to mosaic · Tile rows run bottom-up; call da.sortby('y') for a north-up view · Mask on NoData 255, not 0 (0 is a real value) · No public icechunk store · Single baseline year (2020); no time series · Large dataset (311 GiB, 135,542 COGs) · Source inconsistency: the entry description says six forest categories, while the docs say five forest categories and other land · Mirror only; no endorsement by the producers

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Provenance & evidence

Verified via Source Cooperative API /api/v1/products/epoch (public product, updated 2026-09-11).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (source.coop)