Forest Clearing Alerts

The objective of Goal 15: Life on Land is to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. There are challenges to monitor and evaluate progress toward Goal 15, but new data from satellite and aerial imagery have created opportunities to track progress. Unlike gender inequality (Goal 5), some dimensions of Goal 15 can be measured from space with global consistency and at low marginal cost. We rely on the data that is hosted on the Global Forest Watch platform. These data measure deforestation in near real-time from satellite imagery.

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The endpoint reports the number of 500-meter pixels affected by forest cover loss over the supplied period in the requested country.

Endpoint:

http://localhost:8080/povcal

parameter	type	example	notes
country	string	BRA	ISO3 country code
begin	date	2010-01-01	begin date YYYY-MM-DD
end	date	2013-07-24	end date YYYY-MM-DD

Example:

http://localhost:8080/povcal?country=BRA&begin=2010-01-01&end=2013-01-01

{
    "meta": {
        "source": "WRI/CGD",
        "coverage": "Humid tropical forest biome",
        "timescale": "January 2006–August 2015",
        "updates": "N/A",
        "resolution": "500 x 500 meters (MODIS)",
        "units": "Alerts",
        "description": "Identifies areas of likely tree cover loss",
        "name": "FORMA tree cover loss alerts",
        "id": "forma-alerts"
    },
    "country": "BRA",
    "deforestation": 161875
}