Modeling deforestation baselines using GEOMOD - Instituto ...

Finalizing Avoided Deforestation Baselines
Figure 20. Map showing the
reclassified land use. This map
corresponds to year 1993.
Figure 21. Map corresponds to 2000
Using an area calculation we can determine how many cells of forest existed in each period. Subtraction
of the second from the first tells us how many cells were deforested in the interim period. This number
times the area per cell yields total area deforested. When we divide the area by the number of years we
have our rate per year (Table 17), which for the region totals 2,790 ha/year between 1993 and 2000.
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