This publication is a mirror of the JRC (European Commission Joint Research Centre) global map of forest types 2020, version 1. It attempts to categorise forests into three types: naturally regenerating forests, primary forests, and planted forests.
This publication is a mirror of the JRC (European Commission Joint Research Centre) global map of forest types 2020, version 1. It is one global Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF that accompanies GFC2020. Both products use the same grid and forest definition. We mirror from the JEODPP FTP server to a modern object storage solution.
ftp/jrc-opendata/FOREST/GFT2020/LATEST/single-cog/JRC_GFT2020_V1_cog.tif.The JRC states: "The data may be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime without permission, license or royalty payment. Attribution using the recommended citation is requested." Cite:
Bourgoin, Clement; Ameztoy, Iban; Verhegghen, Astrid; Carboni, Silvia; Achard, Frederic; Colditz, Rene (2026): Global map of forest types 2020 - version 1. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset]. PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/45182662-3015-4a25-8d1e-aa857d75235d
The mirror does not imply endorsement by the European Commission or the JRC.
Nothing. We mirror the file unchanged. JEODPP gives no MD5 hash. We verified integrity by the exact byte count, 79,208,218,483, and by a full TIFF header re-parse.
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Note that the JRC publishes this product alongside the GFC2020 and TMF products.
v1/JRC_GFT2020_V1_cog.tif
Anonymous read through the source.coop proxy:
mask_and_scale=False. Without this setting a default read decodes 0 to NaN.