Forest horizontal structure 2015 based on Copernicus HRL Forest products - version 1, Jan. 2021

This metadata refers to the dataset providing information about the horizontal structure of the European forest as a proxy of its spatial integrity and compactness, over the entire EEA38 member countries and the United Kingdom. The dataset values are the relation between the forest extension and the core forest extension within 1km grid cell. The horizontal structure indicator values range between 0-100 with high values indicating high interior forest habitat, whereas low values define forest with a lower interior habitat quality. The input data is the Forest Area 2015 based on Copernicus HRL Forest products at 100m spatial resolution. The core forest extension is described as forest grid cells that are relatively far from the forest-non forest boundary, calculated by the Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) module of the GuidosToolbox (GTB).