Indicator: Habitat Intactness

Indicator	Habitat intactness
Status	Available on project basis
Description	Habitat intactness measures how much an ecosystem remains free from significant human disturbances, reflecting its ecological integrity. Using remote sensing data, habitat intactness is quantified by mapping and inverting human-induced degradation such as deforestation, infrastructure, agriculture, and land conversion.
Unit	Index values ranging from 0 (degraded) to 100 (intact)
Temporal Resolution	Annual Assessment.
Spatial Resolution	30m
Data	Remote sensing data such as Global Forest Watch, Google Open Buildings as well as data from custom models trained on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and other datasets.
Method	Habitat intactness is assessed using satellite imagery to detect human-caused degradation, such as agriculture, deforestation, mining, settlements, roads, dams, and erosion. Each factor is weighted by its impact and combined into a degradation layer, which is then inverted to produce the habitat intactness layer.