The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a Lead partner of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), is hosting an expert workshop with Purdue University under the AIM4Forests programme to advance the use of AI-driven technologies in forest growth monitoring and carbon mitigation. The workshop will focus on...

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), together with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, are pleased to announce that the GFOI Plenary 2025 will take place from 21–23 October 2025 in Bali, Indonesia, and online. To attend the plenary in person or online, please register here. The GFOI Plenary is the major...

The Third R&D Expert Workshop was organised in collaboration with GOFC-GOLD, CSIRO and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). It took place 24-26 February 2015 in Brisbane, Australia, and was focused on remote sensing approaches for strong vegetation biomass estimation.

The Second R&D Expert Workshop took place on 1-3 October 2014 in Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was organised in collaboration with GOFC-GOLD and was focused on forest degradation.

The First R&D Expert Workshop was held at the Woods Hole Research Centre, USA on the 10-11 June 2014 focusing on sensor interoperability and complementarity.