Natural forests of the world 2020 - validation dataset
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posted on 2025-09-05, 17:34 authored by Maxim NeumannMaxim Neumann, Anton Raichuk, Yuchang Jiang, Melanie Rey, Radost Stanimirova, Michelle Sims, Sarah Carter, Elizabeth Goldman, Keith Anderson, Petra Poklukar, Katelyn Tarrio, Myroslava Lesiv, Steffen Fritz, Nicholas Clinton, Charlotte Stanton, Dan Morris, Drew PurvesDrew Purves<p dir="ltr">Validation dataset for the Natural forests of the world 2020 map. It is based on the Global Forest Management (GFM) validation dataset from 2015, which was re-assessed to annotate natural forests in 2020.</p><p dir="ltr">The comma-separated file (CSV) contains 2072 samples with the following attributes per sample:</p><ol><li>ID: unique sample identifier</li><li>lat: center latitude of the sample patch</li><li>lon: center longitude of the sample patch</li><li>natural_2020: whether the sample represents a natural forest in 2020</li><li>strata: the original strata from the GFM 2015 validation dataset</li></ol><p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>
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Google Deepmind, World Resources Institute, University of Zurich, International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisContact email
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