Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains


Acknowledgments

This research was co-developed by Google Deepmind and Google Research in collaboration with WRI and IIASA.

We thank our collaborators at Google, World Resources Institute (WRI) / Global Forest Watch (GFW), and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): Anton Raichuk, Charlotte Stanton, Dan Morris, Drew Purves, Elizabeth Goldman, Katelyn Tarrio, Keith Anderson, Maxim Neumann, Mélanie Rey, Michelle J. Sims, Myroslava Lesiv, Nicholas Clinton, Petra Poklukar, Radost Stanimirova, Sarah Carter, Steffen Fritz, Yuchang Jiang.

Special thanks to early map reviewers: Andrew Lister (United States Forest Service), Astrid Verheggen (Joint Research Centre), Clement Bourgoin (Joint Research Centre), Erin Glen (WRI), Frederic Achard (Joint Research Centre), Jonas Fridman (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Jukka Meiteninen (VTT), Karen Saunders (World Wildlife Fund Canada), Louis Reymondin (Alliance Bioversity International – CIAT), Martin Herold (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences), Olga Nepomshina (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences), Peter Potapov (University of Maryland/WRI), Rene Colditz (Joint Research Centre), Thibaud Vantalon (Alliance Bioversity International – CIAT), and Viviana Zalles (WRI).

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