dllTreecover: Download tree cover data

In RETURN-project/makeDataCube: Prepare raster datasets for upscaling recovery indicators

Description

This dataset is the result from time-series analysis of Landsat images in characterizing global forest extent and change from 2000 through 2018. The data consists of a geoTIFF layer with tree canopy cover for year 2000 (treecover2000), defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height. This is encoded as a percentage per output grid cell, in the range 0–100. Additionally a data mask (datamask) layer is provided. This layer contains three values representing areas of no data (0), mapped land surface (1), and permanent water bodies (2).

Usage

dllTreecover(ofolder, ext, logfile)

Arguments

ofolder	Full path to store the dataset
ext	Geographic extent that should be downloaded, should be a vector with (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
logfile	Full path to the logfile

Details

Downloaded from: https://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest/download_v1.6.html

Use the following credit when these data are displayed: Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA

Use the following credit when these data are cited: Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. “High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change.” Science 342 (15 November): 850–53. Data available on-line from: http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest.

Hansen, M. C., Potapov, P. V., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S. A., Tyukavina, A., ... & Kommareddy, A. (2013). High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change. science, 342(6160), 850-853.

Value

stores file to disk

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