"#### All sourced input datasets might not contain the every 10 x 10 degree tile to cover the entire globe. For example, the Primary Humid Tropical Forest layer is provided only for the tropics. As such, for missing tiles, psuedo layers with 0 values are created to cover the entire land surface of the earth. These pseudo layers ensure that the forest classification can run without returning errors for any 10 x 10 degree tile in the world.\n",
"#### All sourced input datasets might not contain every 10 x 10 degree tile to cover the entire globe. For example, the Primary Humid Tropical Forest layer is provided only for the tropics. As such, for missing tiles, psuedo layers with 0 values are created to cover the entire land surface of the earth. These pseudo layers ensure that the forest classification can run without returning errors for any 10 x 10 degree tile in the world.\n",
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"#### Below is an example of such layers created for where the JRC Tropcal maps have no detected degradation"
"#### Below is an example of such psuedo layers created for where the JRC Tropical maps that are missing from our global-coverage"
The following are notes that provide the steps followed for the download and pre-processing of input datasets (Table 1). The end product are the datasets resampled and aligned to a 30 m x 30 m grid in 10 x 10 degree tiles. These steps are reproducible for batch processing on the AWS DPS cloud-computing system that supports the NASA MAAP. For ease of use, a single 10 x 10 degree tile (00N_000E) is exemplified so the steps are comprehensible and easily implementable on local machines. Cells are executable in either Python or R depending on the opertation to be performed, and it is indicated which to use where.
#### Available at https://glad.umd.edu/dataset/primary-forest-humid-tropics
#### Note, data is available for download for each continent covering the tropics. 10 x 10 degree tiles are hence produced separately for Asia, Africa and South America.
#### GEZ 2010 layer was accessed at: https://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/remote-sensing/global-ecological-zones-gez-mapping/en/
#### Desert ecoregions are removed, the vectors are merged with cotinent boundaries and the output "EcoCont_clean.shp" prodocued in the study is accessible at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l3mrSmR4fFMRcUuKLsOTBDbuFdzYIUfk?usp=drive_link
#### The ESA WorldCover 2021 dataset was accessed through the NASA MAAP STAC end-point. Steps for this are provided below, and executed in Python. Users outside the NASA MAAP are directed to donwload the original data at https://worldcover2021.esa.int/download, and then follow the pre-processing steps described in the next cell.
#### All sourced input datasets might not contain the every 10 x 10 degree tile to cover the entire globe. For example, the Primary Humid Tropical Forest layer is provided only for the tropics. As such, for missing tiles, psuedo layers with 0 values are created to cover the entire land surface of the earth. These pseudo layers ensure that the forest classification can run without returning errors for any 10 x 10 degree tile in the world.
#### All sourced input datasets might not contain every 10 x 10 degree tile to cover the entire globe. For example, the Primary Humid Tropical Forest layer is provided only for the tropics. As such, for missing tiles, psuedo layers with 0 values are created to cover the entire land surface of the earth. These pseudo layers ensure that the forest classification can run without returning errors for any 10 x 10 degree tile in the world.
#### Below is an example of such layers created for where the JRC Tropcal maps have no detected degradation
#### Below is an example of such psuedo layers created for where the JRC Tropical maps that are missing from our global-coverage