Deforestation

"Deforestation is defined as “the direct and/or induced conversion of forest cover to another type of land cover in a given timeframe of 10 years”.

The table shows annual deforestation expressed in hectares; these stratified estimated areas are obtained after the execution of the Quality Assessment Quality Control.

These deforestation figures are based on wall-to-wall maps, where for the period 2000-2017 Landsat images are used, and for the periods after 2017 Sentinel 2 images are used. The maps underwent a Quality Assessment| Quality Control procedure with an average overall accuracy of 90% and an average uncertainty of 10%.

Disclaimer: The statistics presented throughout reports may vary due to differences in methodological approaches.

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	Quality Assessment Quality Control (QAQC) results
Period	Yearly stratified estimated deforestation area (ha)	Confidence interval (+/- area in ha)	Deforestation rate

2022-2023	11,177.00	0.0040	0.07
2021-2022	8,405.00	0.0050	0.06
2020-2021	8,664.33	0.0100	0.06
2019-2020	8,860.99	0.0200	0.06
2018-2019	10,243.00	0.0200	0.07
2017-2018	8,818.00	315.0000	0.06
2016-2017	10,667.00	3,162.0000	0.07
2015-2016	11,386.56	1,886.0000	0.07
2014-2015	9,442.00	1,620.0000	0.06
2013-2014	15,757.00	2,082.0000	0.10

Sources: Technical report: Forest cover monitoring in Suriname using remote sensing techniques for the period 2000-2019 Forest Reference Emission Level for Suriname's REDD+ Programme- Government of Suriname (2018) Global forest resources assessment 2020 report Suriname-(2020) Ninth (9th) Environment Statistics Publication- ABS (2020)) SBB and UNIQUE (2017) Surinaamse Bosbouwsector Analyse Rapport 2019 - SBB (2021) Technical report: Forest cover monitoring in Suriname using remote sensing techniques for the period 2000-2015- SBB (2017)