Owner:

Alba Viana Soto and Cornelius Senf

Summary:

This repository holds maps of annual forest disturbances across 38 European countries derived from Landsat satellite data. The European Forest Disturbance Atlas currently covers the period 1985-2023 and consists of a set of maps: 

• The year of disturbance layers contain the year of the most recent disturbance event in the time-series, the greatest disturbance in terms of spectral change and stack of annual disturbances indicating undisturbed (0) and disturbed (1).
• The number of disturbances layer shows the number of disturbance events detected within the time-series.
• The disturbance severity layer indicates the spectral change in NBR relative to pre-disturbance.
• The disturbance agent layer summarises the attribution of agents over the full time series. The causal agents assigned are wind/bark beetle complex (1), fire (2), harvest (3) and mixed agents (4, where more than one agent occurred). The stack of disturbance agents provides annual information on causal agent assigned. 

Link to dataset:

https://zenodo.org/records/13333034

Citation:

Viana-Soto, A., & Senf, C. (2024). European Forest Disturbance Atlas (Version 2.1.1.) [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13333034

Associated research:

https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2024-361/

Associated GitHub:

 https://github.com/albaviana/European-Forest-Disturbance-Atlas