DISFOR

DISFOR offers dense labelled satellite time-series data on forest disturbance timing and agents of disturbance. It contains 3823 unique time-series. Each time-series corresponds to a single 10x10m Sentinel-2 pixel.

Usage

A Python package is available at https://github.com/JR-DIGITAL/DISFOR. It offers utilities to load and filter the available data. See the github page for installation instructions. There are also usage guides available in the documentation at: https://jr-digital.github.io/DISFOR/usage/dataset-overview/

Dataset Overview

There are four main parts of this dataset:

• samples.parquet: Providing location and metadata of sampled points
• labels.parquet: Providing labels for each sampled time-series
• pixel_data.parquet: Providing Sentinel-2 band data for each acquistion in the time-series
• Sentinel-2 Chips: Image chip time-series for each sample

samples.parquet

This contains the sampled points along with metadata on the points. It provides the following columns:

Column name	Description
sample_id	Unique sample ID for each sample point
original_sample_id	Sample ID of the point in the original publication of the dataset
interpreter	Shorthand code for the interpreter who labelled this sample
dataset	Number of the original sampling campaign in which this point was labelled
source	The ancillary data source used to interpret the agent
source_description	A long text description of the used source. Link to the original data if available
s2_tile	If available, which Sentinel 2 Tile the sample intersects
cluster_id	Unique ID to group samples which are spatio-temporally autocorrelated
cluster_description	What type of cluster it is
comment	Free text comment about the interpretation of the sampled point
confidence	Confidence of sampling: high where both timing and agent are confident, medium were only the timing is confident
geometry	Coordinates of the sampled point. In CRS EPSG:4326

labels.parquet

This contains the time-series labels for each sampled point in samples.parquet. The following columns are available:

Column name	Description
sample_id	Taken from sample table
original_sample_id	Taken from sample table
dataset	Taken from sample table
label	Interpreted class of the segment (see next table)
original_label	The label which was originally assigned and remapped to label
start	Start date of the segment
end	End date of the segment
start_next_label	Start date of the next label. Some labels are encoded as events (Clear Cuts for example) and are not immediately followed by another label, this column allows a full segmentation of the time-series. Null if it is the last label of the sample

The provided label is a hierarchical label, following this hierarchy:

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
100 - Healthy Vegetation	110 - Undisturbed Forest
	120 - Revegetation	121 - With Trees (after clear cut)
		122 - Canopy closing (after thinning/defoliation)
		123 - Without Trees (shrubs and grasses, no reforestation visible)
200 - Disturbed	210 - Planned	211 - Clear Cut
		212 - Thinning
		213 - Forestry Mulching (Non Forest Vegetation Removal)
	220 - Salvage	221 - After Biotic Disturbances
		222 - After Abiotic Disturbances
	230 - Biotic	231 - Bark Beetle
		232 - Gypsy Moth (temporal segment of visible disturbance)
	240 - Abiotic	241 - Drought
		242 - Wildfire
		243 - Wind
		244 - Avalanche
		245 - Flood

This mapping from label numbers to text is also available in classes.json.

pixel_data.parquet

This dataset provides the Sentinel-2 time-series of spectral values from which the labels were interpreted. The following columns are available:

Column name	Datatype	Description
sample_id	UINT16	Taken from sample table
timestamp	DATE	UTC date of the S2 acquisition
label	UINT16	Interpreted class of the segment, see previous table
clear	BOOL	True if the pixel is clear (SCL value any of 2,4,5,6)
percent_clear_4x4 [8x8, 16x16, 32x32]	UINT8	The percentage of clear pixels (SCL in 2,4,5,6) within a 4x4, 8x8, 16x16 or 32x32 pixel image chip
B02, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, B08, B8A, B11, B12	UINT16	DN value for the spectral band
SCL	UINT8	Sentinel 2 Scene Classification Value

Sentinel-2 Chips

The files disfor-<start-id>-<end-id>.tar.zst provide tarballs with Sentinel-2 chips for each sample. The chips are of size 32x32px, the sampled point is always at [16,16]. The available bands are: B02, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, B08, B8A, B11, B12. Sentinel-2 bands with a native resolution of 20m (B11, B12) were resampled to 10m using nearest neighbor resampling.

The file structure in each tarball is:

tiffs/<sample_id>/YYYY-MM-DD.tif

Train Test Split

There is a train test split available which was constructed to reduce spatial autocorrelation and information leakage between the sets. Two JSONs with lists of sample_ids are available in

• train_ids.json
• val_ids.json