google-deepmind/forest_typology

google-deepmind/forest_typology

Description: Datasets to protect Earth's forests and biodiversity

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Created: 2025-05-02T07:31:50Z

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Forest Typology

Protecting biodiversity and curbing carbon emissions from deforestation demands a deeper understanding of global forest cover. Informed decision-making hinges not only on knowing where forests are, but on understanding their composition and distinguishing forest types that play critical roles as biodiversity hotspots and major carbon sinks.

Google DeepMind (GDM) in collaboration with external (World Resources Institute (WRI)), and internal partners (Google Research, Google Geo Sustainability) are developing AI models to estimate the forest types and to generate regional to global maps of forest land cover. In addition to releasing these layers we create benchmark datasets for AI researchers.

Forest and habitat layers

• [Natural forests of the world (v1)](./natural_forests/README.md) - global

map of natural forests for 2020.

• Global drivers of forest loss (Upcoming).

Benchmark datasets

• [ForTy (v1)](./forty_v1/README.md) - global multi-temporal multi-source

segmentation benchmark dataset for forest types.

• [Planted](./planted/README.md) - large-scale benchmark dataset for planted

forest recognition (with subtasks for monoculture plantation tree species and genera recognition).

License and disclaimer

Copyright 2025 DeepMind Technologies Limited

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This is not an official Google product.