Cecil Earth / Land use & land cover / Global Forest Cover
Land use & land cover by JRC

Global Forest Cover

This dataset classifies the presence or absence of forest cover for the year 2020, with global coverage at 10 m spatial resolution.

Frameworks

EUDR SBTN TNFD CSRD ESRS E4

Use cases

  • EUDR land cover change detection for commodity deforestation risk
  • SBTN natural lands baseline and conversion monitoring
  • Land use change analysis for corporate deforestation commitments
  • Habitat conversion screening across supply chain sourcing areas

Who uses this

EUDR compliance officers and commodity traders use the JRC Global Forest Cover layer as the EU's reference baseline for forest definition — the Commission-endorsed starting point for demonstrating deforestation-free status. Supply chain data teams anchor due diligence to this legally relevant forest definition. ESG analysts use it to cross-validate other land cover products against the authoritative EU regulatory benchmark.

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