Forest morphological spatial pattern 2018 based on Copernicus High Resolution Layer (HRL) Forest products - version 1, Jun. 2021

This metadata refers to the dataset providing information about morphological spatial pattern of European forest in 2018 covering the all EEA38 member countries and United Kingdom. The input data is the Copernicus HRL Forest Type (FTY) 2018 product at 100m spatial resolution. This FTY2018 layer was converted to binary forest mask (forest / non-forest). The forest mask is divided, by MSPA tool, into seven morphological spatial pattern classes: * Core * Islet * Perforation * Edge * Loop * Bridge * Branch (Forest) The Background (Non-Forest) is divided into three classes: * Core-Opening (Background inside Core) * Border-Opening (Background along Foreground boundary) * Background outside of Foreground.