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JRC Global Forest Types 2020

This publication is a mirror of the JRC (European Commission Joint Research Centre) global map of forest types 2020, version 1. It attempts to categorise forests into three types: naturally regenerating forests, primary forests, and planted forests.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: Forest type (categorical): non-forest · naturally regenerating forest · primary forest · planted or plantation forest
Coverage docs-verified: Global, longitude -180 to 180, latitude -60 to 80 · 2020
Resolution docs-verified: ~10 m at the equator (1/12000°), grid 4,320,000 × 1,680,000, EPSG:4326
Formats docs-verified: GeoTIFF (Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF, single file)
Access docs-verified: Free, public, anonymous read via source.coop (HTTPS / S3-compatible, no sign-in); licence CC-BY-4.0

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Forest-type screening of a site or catchment for BNG habitat baseline (primary vs planted vs regenerating woodland) · Land-cover context layer for FRA or catchment hydrology desk studies (forest vs non-forest cover) · Ecological constraint mapping for planning and EIA screening, using primary forest areas as a sensitivity indicator
Audience llm-inferred: ecologists · GIS analysts · hydrologists · planners

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Reads with rioxarray require mask_and_scale=False; default read decodes 0 (non-forest) to NaN · No public icechunk store for this product · Single 73.8 GiB file; full-extent reads are large · Single year (2020) only

Licence: see product README
Authentication: Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop
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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)