The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has unveiled a new portal for tracking international capacity development support to developing countries in forest monitoring. The GFOI Inventory of Activities provides easy-to-access...
GFOI Partners the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) will work together to strenghten the accessibility and accuracy...
Japan will provide free and open access to a suite of data from their satellites. The announcement was made at the GEO Ministerial Summit held in Canberra, Australia last week...
GFOI’s partner the Food and Agriculture Organization announces a new collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to help countries generate reliable and accessible forest data, in line with the...
Anyone, anywhere can engage in forest monitoring with the new version of FAO’s geospatial platform SEPAL - System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring.
SEPAL 2.1...
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is inviting interested participants to submit abstracts for the two GEO sessions taking place during the upcoming meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
The...
GFOI partner the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment will purchase and freely distribute high resolution satellite imagery of all tropical forests. A broad set of stakeholders will be given...
A special issue of the “Remote Sensing” Journal, under "Forest Remote Sensing, is open for submissions on “National REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting”. The deadline is 29 May 2020.
Contributors are welcome...
The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is compiling a Registry of Tools available to support countries in forest monitoring activities.
The tool will be considered for inclusion within this registry if...
Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in a 2012 Resolution and celebrated annually on 21 March, the International Day of Forests (IDF) celebrates and raises awareness of the importance...
GFOI welcomes SERVIR-Amazonia, the new hub for satellite data, Earth science, local data, and visualization tools across the Amazon Basin.
SERVIR Amazonia will be funded by USAID with science and technology support...
To improve its focus on helping developing countries to develop national forest monitoring systems (NFMS) and associated emissions measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) requirements, GFOI is developing a new Country...
The annual Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Plenary was held at the Bogotá Marriott Hotel in Bogotá, Colombia, from 12 to 16 March 2018. The GFOI Plenary 2018 provided a productive forum...
Press release | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Thanks to a major effort to ensure full satellite coverage of the world’s forests, all countries now have the necessary data for annual...
The GFOI Capacity Building Summit was held at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu Nepal from 18 to 22 September 2017.
The Summit was attended by representatives...
The 12th meeting of CEOS’ Space Data Coordination Group (SDCG) for GFOI was held this week at ESA’s Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati Italy.
The twice yearly meeting...
A Masters’ level short course on MRV for REDD+ was held in Iquitos City Peru from 14 to 23 August 2017.
Organized by the US SilvaCarbon Program and the Global...
