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Topic . Environment & climate
Deforestation
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Deforestation monitoring detects forest-cover loss and degradation events and tracks loss extent, alert timing, confidence, and monitoring history from concessions to global forests.[1][2]
Landsat-based global forest change mapping established 30 m global tree-cover loss and gain records for 2000 onward.[1]
GLAD alerts use freely available Landsat data, Hansen-GLAD algorithms, and cloud computing to provide near-weekly forest-loss alerts.[2]
Deforestation monitoring differs from static forest-cover mapping because the observable is a transition event from forest to nonforest or canopy disturbance.[1][2]
What's available today
15 data products, 5 services and 54 sensors. Start with the most-used; switch to Filter for the full catalogue.
15 Data products
5 Services
54 Sensors
13 open 1 commercial 1 restricted
Data products — commonly used
Open Sentinel-1 GRD IW
Services & platforms — 5
Regulations driving this topic
Sources
- [1]NASA Landsat: GLAD deforestation alertsagency doc2015-04-072026-05-27
- [2]High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Changepeer reviewed2013-11-152026-05-27
- [3]NASA Landsat: deforestation alert system impactagency doc2021-01-042026-05-27
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Deforestation. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-27. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/deforestation (CC BY 4.0)
BibTeX
@misc{eoatlas:topics:deforestation,
title = {Deforestation},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
year = {2026},
note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-27. CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/deforestation}
}