{"id":29966,"date":"2025-11-19T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/ensuring-eudr-compliance-evaluating-global-forest-maps-for-deforestation-monitoring-geos-eudr-brief-1\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:38:48","slug":"ensuring-eudr-compliance-evaluating-global-forest-maps-for-deforestation-monitoring-geos-eudr-brief-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/ensuring-eudr-compliance-evaluating-global-forest-maps-for-deforestation-monitoring-geos-eudr-brief-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring EUDR Compliance: Evaluating Global Forest Maps for Deforestation Monitoring (GEOS-EUDR Brief #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This technical and policy brief was financially supported by BMZ through the GEOS-EUDR project. It draws on a <strong>systematic review of 21 global forest tree cover datasets<\/strong> and their applicability as EUDR-reference maps by Freitas-Beyer et al. (2025).\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only eight datasets meet key spatial, temporal, and definitional criteria for EUDR compliance checks, <\/strong>and<strong> only two <\/strong>datasets<strong> matched all three EUDR forest definition criteria: canopy cover (\u226510%), tree height (\u22655m), and minimum mapping unit (\u22650.5 ha).<\/strong> The findings reveal significant over- and underestimation patterns, inconsistencies in forest definitions, and regional data limitations. The <strong>brief provides actionable recommendations for operators and competent authorities<\/strong> when applying map products for deforestation verification and outlines key insights for decision and policy makers how to support deforestation monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This technical and policy brief was financially supported by BMZ through the GEOS-EUDR project. It draws on a systematic review of 21 global forest tree cover datasets and their applicability as EUDR-reference maps by Freitas-Beyer et al. (2025).\u00a0 Only eight datasets meet key spatial, temporal, and definitional criteria for EUDR compliance checks, and only two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":13344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1034,1872,104,1035,1036,1884],"class_list":["post-29966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria","tag-doforestation-monitoring","tag-dpi","tag-eudr-pt-pt","tag-geos","tag-global-forest-maps","tag-legality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29971,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions\/29971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}