Forest Canopy Cover Loss (FCCL) - Germany - Monthly, Administrative Level

This vector dataset is based on a 10 m resolution raster dataset that shows forest canopy cover loss (FCCL) in Germany at a monthly resolution from September 2017 to September 2024. Results at pixel level were aggregated at municipality, district, and federal state level. For the results at administrative level we differentiate between deciduous and coniferous forests. We use the stocked area map 2018 (Langner et al. 2022, https://doi.org/10.3220/DATA20221205151218 ) as a reference forest mask. We differentiate between deciduous and coniferous forests by intersecting the stocked area map with a tree species map (Blickensdoerfer et al. 2024). Pixels of the classes birch, beech, oak, alder, deciduous trees with long lifespan and deciduous trees with short lifespan were classified as deciduous forest and pixels of the classes Douglas fir, spruce, pine, larch and fir as coniferous forest. The coverage of the two datasets is not identical, which is why a few areas of the forest reference map remained unclassified. These were filled with the dominant leaf type map of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS 2025). Therefore, the vector data at administrative level contains information about unclassified forest areas and the total forest area as the sum of deciduous, coniferous, and unclassified forests. The FCCL confidence at pixel level is lowest at the end of the time series because the number of repeated threshold exceedance is used as a criterion to record forest canopy cover losses. Therefore, we excluded July 2024 through September 2024 from the annual and overall statistics and summarized the respective FCCL as additional attribute. The dataset is a fully reprocessed continuation of the assessment in Thonfeld et al. (2022).
 
Citation proposal
German Aerospace Center (DLR). Forest Canopy Cover Loss (FCCL) - Germany - Monthly, Administrative Level. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6f49bd22-5d73-44de-8d9b-95bb9825013f
 

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File identifier
6f49bd22-5d73-44de-8d9b-95bb9825013f   XML
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Online resource
Protocol
OGC:WMS
Protocol
OGC:WMS
Protocol
OGC:WMS
Protocol
OGC:WMS
Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol
Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Resource identifier
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https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/6f49bd22-5d73-44de-8d9b-95bb9825013f
Metadata language
English English
Spatial representation type
Grid
Encoding
Format
Geopackage
Projection
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Biota
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
Spatial scope ( Place )
Other keywords
Keywords
  • DLR
  • EOC
  • opendata
  • Forest
  • Canopy Cover Loss
  • Disturbance
  • Sentinel-2
  • Landsat
  • Administrative Level
  • Multispectral
  • Germany
 
 

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W


 

Temporal reference

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Temporal extent
Date ( Creation )
2025-06-11T00:00:00
 

Quality and validity

Lineage
The data set is based on the FCCL product at pixel level which uses time series of Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat-8/9 data.
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
Explanation
See the referenced specification.
 

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Nutzungsbedingungen: Lizenz, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Terms of use: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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"quelle": "Copyright DLR (year of production)"}

 

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Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email
Frank.Thonfeld@dlr.de
Organisation name
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email
geoservice@dlr.de
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email
Frank.Thonfeld@dlr.de
Organisation name
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email
geoservice@dlr.de
 

Metadata information

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Organisation name
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email
geoservice@dlr.de
Date stamp
2025-06-24T11:57:15
Metadata language
English English
Character set
UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

Access Point URL
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Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

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Quality of Service
 
Access constraints
Limitation
 
Use constraints
Limitation
 
Responsible custodian
Contact for the resource
 
 

Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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