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Forest Canopy Cover Loss (FCCL) - Germany - Monthly, 10m

This raster dataset shows forest canopy cover loss (FCCL) in Germany at a monthly resolution from September 2017 to October 2025. It is similar to the product developed by Thonfeld et al. (2022) but was fully reprocessed and updated to reveal the most recent forest disturbance dynamics (Thonfeld et al. 2026). The combination of Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat-8/9 data allows for a high temporal resolution while the pixel size of the product is 10 m. The results are clipped to the stocked area 2018 mapped by the Thünen-Institute (Langner et al. 2022, https://doi.org/10.3220/DATA20221205151218 ). The dataset contains predominantly larger canopy openings resulting from different drivers but also larger clusters of standing deadwood. FCCL can result from abiotic (e.g. wind, fire, drought, hail) drivers, biotic (e.g. insects, funghi) drivers or a combination of both as well as from sanitary and salvage logging and planned harvest. The first version with canopy cover losses from January 2018 - April 2021 (Thonfeld et al. 2022) can be accessed here: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/datasets/tccl .

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Date (Creation)
2025-05-20T00:00:00
Citation identifier
https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/cdb2c209-7e08-4f4c-b500-69de926e3023
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

This data set shows recent-past FCCL dynamics. It can be used for future forest management and planning. It therefore addresses public authorities and several stakeholders in the forest, nature conservation and climate sector.

Status
ongoing
Author
  German Aerospace Center (DLR) -
Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

Spatial scope
  • National
Keywords
  • Forest

  • Canopy Cover Loss

  • Disturbance

  • Sentinel-2

  • Landsat

  • Multispectral

  • Germany

  • opendata

Use limitation

Nutzungseinschränkungen: Das DLR ist nicht haftbar für Schäden, die sich aus der Nutzung ergeben. / Use Limitations: DLR not liable for damage resulting from use.

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
There are no limitations on public access to spatial data sets and services.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Nutzungsbedingungen: Lizenz, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Terms of use: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other constraints

{"id": "cc-by-4.0",

"name": "Creative-Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",

"url": " http://dcat-ap.de/def/licenses/cc-by/4.0 ",

"quelle": "Copyright DLR (2022)"}

Spatial representation type
Grid
Denominator
20000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
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Begin date
2017-09-01T00:00:00
End date
2024-09-30T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035 - ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
66822
Resolution
10  m
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
88989
Resolution
10  m
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ()

OnLine resource
FCCL_DE_P1M ( OGC:WMS )

EOC Land Map Service

OnLine resource
FCCL_DE_P1M_MASK ( OGC:WMS )

EOC Land Map Service

OnLine resource
FCCL_DE_P1M_CHANGES ( OGC:WMS )

EOC Land Map Service

OnLine resource
FCCL_DE_P1M_GAPS ( OGC:WMS )

EOC Land Map Service

OnLine resource
HTTP Download ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
EOC EO Products Service ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

EOC EO Products Service - STAC Collection: FCCL_DE_P1M

OnLine resource
EOC Geoservice Dataset
OnLine resource
Sor­ge um den deut­schen Wald ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

DLR News - Webpage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification.

Pass
Yes
Statement

The data set is based on time series of Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat-8/9 data.

Description

Processing:

The satellite data is aggregated to monthly composites of the disturbance index (DI, Healey et al. 2005) and compared to the median DI from 2017 as a reference. The algorithm applies a fixed threshold to the difference images and counts how often the threshold is exceeded. An anomaly is considered FCCL if the threshold is exceeded six times in a row.

File identifier
cdb2c209-7e08-4f4c-b500-69de926e3023 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

Dataseries

Date stamp
2026-04-09T12:17:08
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-1:2014/19139

Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover

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