European Forest Disturbance Atlas
The European Forest Disturbance Atlas (EFDA) is Landsat-based approach for mapping annual forest disturbances across continental Europe since 1985 🌳🌲🛰️🗺️
The European Forest Disturbance Atlas data is freely accessible under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13333034 (Viana-Soto and Senf, 2024). Summary layers are accessible through Google Earth Engine in ee.Assets.latest_disturbance_v211, ee.Assets.number_disturbances_v211, ee.Assets.disturbance_agent_v211. The maps can be also explored online: https://albaviana.users.earthengine.app/view/european-forest-disturbance-map. Code used for processing the Landsat data using FORCE is available in https://github.com/davidfrantz/force.
Full methods are explained in: Viana-Soto, A., & Senf, C. (2025). The European Forest Disturbance Atlas: a forest disturbance monitoring system using the Landsat archive. Earth System Science Data, 17(6), 2373-2404. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2373-2025
This work is part of the ForestPaths project (Co-designing Holistic Forest-based Policy Pathways for Climate Change Mitigation, ID No 101056755).
Alba Viana-Soto 