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Global Natural and Planted Forests (30m)

30 m global map distinguishing natural forest, planted forest, and non-forest, from Xiao Yuelong (2024), "Global Natural and Planted Forests Mapping at Fine Spatial Resolution of 30m." This is a mirror of the Zenodo release, republished as cloud-optimized GeoTIFF tiles with a geoparquet STAC index and a virtualizarr/icechunk store for cloud-native access. Modifications are flagged in the repository README.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: natural forest vs planted forest vs non-forest class map (single-band uint8; 0 non-forest, 1 natural forest, 2 planted forest, 255 NoData)
Coverage docs-verified: Global land with forest (1,010 tiles of about 5° × 5°) · About 2020
Resolution docs-verified: ~30 m (0.000269°), EPSG:4326
Formats docs-verified: GeoTIFF (COG, 512×512 blocks, ZSTD) · GeoParquet (STAC 1.1 index) · Icechunk (xarray/Zarr)
Access docs-verified: Public; anonymous read via data.source.coop HTTPS proxy and anonymous S3 (us-west-2) for the icechunk cube; licence CC-BY 4.0, attribution required

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Catchment land-cover context: share of natural forest, planted forest and non-forest for screening-level runoff or interception inputs · BNG and ecological constraints screening: flag planted vs natural woodland within a red-line boundary before a habitat survey · Planning or EIA baseline: forest-cover context for a regional study area using the c.2020 snapshot
Audience llm-inferred: GIS analysts · ecologists · hydrologists · planners

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Source tiles overlap neighbours by 1 pixel; on tile boundaries the icechunk cube holds one neighbour's value · Areas without a source tile read as 255 (NoData), not non-forest · Icechunk cube is a materialised copy (8.9 GiB), not a virtual store · Single c.2020 snapshot; no time series · Republished derivative of Xiao Yuelong (2024); modifications flagged in README; no endorsement by the author · 30 m resolution limits detail for small sites

Licence: see product README
Authentication: Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop
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Last commit: Unknown
Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
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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)