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 .
Simple
- 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
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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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land cover
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- Keywords
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Forest
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Canopy Cover Loss
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Disturbance
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Sentinel-2
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Landsat
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Multispectral
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Germany
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opendata
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- Use limitation
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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
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Nutzungsbedingungen: Lizenz, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Terms of use: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Other constraints
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"quelle": "Copyright DLR (2022)"}
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 20000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- 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
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GeoTIFF
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GeoTIFF
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- OnLine resource
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FCCL_DE_P1M
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OGC:WMS
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EOC Land Map Service
- OnLine resource
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FCCL_DE_P1M_MASK
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OGC:WMS
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EOC Land Map Service
- OnLine resource
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FCCL_DE_P1M_CHANGES
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OGC:WMS
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EOC Land Map Service
- OnLine resource
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FCCL_DE_P1M_GAPS
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OGC:WMS
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EOC Land Map Service
- OnLine resource
- HTTP Download ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
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EOC EO Products Service
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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EOC EO Products Service - STAC Collection: FCCL_DE_P1M
- OnLine resource
- EOC Geoservice Dataset
- OnLine resource
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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
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See the referenced specification.
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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The data set is based on time series of Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat-8/9 data.
- Description
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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
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Dataseries
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-09T12:17:08
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115-1:2014/19139
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