DeepMind and WRI release 10-meter global forest typology map ForTy
10/31/2026 — 10/31, 20:18·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- Google DeepMind, Google Research, the World Resources Institute, and IIASA released Forest Typology 2020 (ForTy), a global map that classifi…
- the dataset paper is published in Scientific Data.
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On 31 October 2026, Google DeepMind and Google Research, working with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and IIASA, released Forest Typology 2020 (ForTy), the first global map that classifies land into six forest and land-use types at 10-meter resolution. The release was announced the same day on the Google DeepMind Blog.
ForTy follows FAO definitions, placing every land area into one of six classes: primary forest, naturally regenerating forest, planted forest, plantation forest, tree crops and agroforestry, and other land. At 10-meter resolution, it offers a far finer view of how forests are distributed and typed across the planet than previous global-scale land cover products.
The classifier behind the map treats AlphaEarth Foundations embeddings as a key input. Training drew on roughly 1.7 million labeled data points collected worldwide. The dataset paper describing ForTy has been published in Scientific Data.
As of the announcement, no further details on downstream availability or follow-up releases had been reported.
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Google DeepMind and Google Research, with the World Resources Institute and IIASA, released Forest Typology 2020 (ForTy), which classifies global land into six FAO-aligned forest and land-use types at 10-meter resolution. The classifier leans on AlphaEarth Foundations embeddings and was trained on roughly 1.7 million labeled locations; the dataset paper is out in Scientific Data.
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