Fès-Meknès
Third region processed: forest cover and forest species, mapped from ground truth. Species coverage is deliberately partial and documented, the north of the region is not covered yet.
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Why this data
Free global products (Hansen, ESA WorldCover) never distinguish forest species. This species map is built from ground truth, more reliable than a classic zone-by-zone digitization. Training is restricted to pure stands, with a two-stage filter (climate domain, geographic distance to known zones) to prevent excessive extrapolation. Coverage is deliberately partial: only the area covered by this data is mapped by species, about 40% of the regional forest mask — the north of the region is not covered yet. Dieback and forest dynamics analysis is in progress.
Layers
Automated satellite detection (3 VIIRS satellites, about 6 passes a day over Morocco), not verified on the ground. A hotspot can be agricultural burning, an industrial heat source, or a forest fire: the satellite cannot tell them apart. 3-day window.
Click a region to see its available layers. Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima is the first region processed, others follow one by one.
Sources
- Basemap: Esri World Imagery
- Admin. boundaries and regional division: official Morocco sources
- Relief (DEM): SRTM, 30 m resolution (NASA/USGS)
- Watersheds: extracted from the SRTM DEM
- Dams: Geoportail's own data
- Protected areas: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet, WDPA, September 2026
- Hotspots: data and imagery from NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System), part of LANCE (Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations), near real-time
- Cities: geographic landmarks, population from the 2024 census (HCP)
Fès-Meknès
Available layers
Third region processed. Species mapped from ground truth, training restricted to pure stands. Partial coverage: only part of the regional forest mask has a direct training sample, filtered by climate domain and geographic distance to known zones. Dieback and forest dynamics analysis in progress.
Basemap: Esri World Imagery satellite imagery. DEM: SRTM, 30 m resolution — major watersheds are extracted from this DEM. Relief and dams: Geoportail's own data. Administrative boundaries and regional division: official Morocco sources. Cities and population/household data: 2024 census (RGPH), Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP).