Training materials
The national forest monitoring system (NFMS) assessment tool aims to assist countries in carrying out a comprehensive capacity assessment of forest monitoring across three complementary themes – institutional arrangements, measurement and estimation, and reporting and verification.
The purpose of this field manual is to provide field inventory staff with standard procedures on inventory techniques for data collection needed for carbon stock estimation and other forest related attributes. The manual includes a description of the sampling design and instructions used in the data collection of biophysical attributes...
This manual was designed to introduce users to the procedures for navigating SEPAL and Collect Earth Online Software in order to prepare land use/land cover mapping. The illustrations and examples are tailored to mapping Nigeria’s land cover.
This note aims to inform technical staff responsible for forest reference emission level and/or forest reference level (FREL/FRL) construction about the use, and potential added value and/or limitations, of spatial modeling. It explains the underlying concepts that spatial models apply and discusses how FREL/ FRL construction could be affected by...
This document uses the publication Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change, as a framework to provide recommendations for designing and implementing an accuracy assessment for land cover and land cover change maps, and for estimating area based on the results from the accuracy assessment. This...