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

2009-2013	8,017.75	2,388.0000	0.05
2000-2009	3,672.33	5,361.0000	0.02
2000	0.00	0.0000	0.00

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)