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21/11/2019
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 (GEO Week 2019). The radar data and associated information will be made available by GFOI partner the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...
11/11/2019
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 Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency requirements. The project will strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to collect, analyze and...
01/10/2019
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 was presented at the Nature for Climate Hub in New York, an event held on the occasion of the United...
12/07/2019
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 deadline for submissions is 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT. The AGU Fall Meeting 2019 will be held on 9-13 December 2019...
01/07/2019
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 free access to use the data to better analyze forests and land use change, including governments, scientists and NGOs. The international...
03/05/2019
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 to submit national or local case studies related to humid and dry forests. The manuscripts can cover different monitoring targets...

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