Publications

28/06/2024

Read the communiqué on the GFOI Plenary 2023, to understand the role of forest information in addressing climate change.

14/02/2024

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+), as well as greenhouse...

09/11/2023

Better forest management is underpinned by better forest monitoring. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is a partnership that coordinates international support in forest monitoring to help tropical countries address...

27/10/2022

The collaboration between the government of the United States of America’s SilvaCarbon programme and SERVIR is presented in these infographics;

27/10/2022

The implications of restoration on water cycles is explored in this study.

27/10/2022

This is an interesting study looking into providing much more rapid data on forest disturbances and local carbon impacts in the Congo Basin;

09/09/2022

A study associated estimates on tropical deforestation and agriculture from 2011 to 2015 and found that at least 90% of deforested land occurred in landscapes where agriculture drove forest loss,...

07/09/2022

This study assessed the potential of different satellite data modalities (single-date, multi-date, multi-resolution, and an ensemble of multi-sensor images) for classifying land-use following deforestation in Ethiopia using the U-Net deep...

30/07/2022

This study is a nice example of using space-based LIDAR to assess forest regrowth in the Amazon.

01/12/2021

This study is to understand NFI characteristics in relation to their integration with space-based products, especially for tropical countries. The study assessed availability, temporal distribution and extents of NFIs based on...

17/11/2021

This presentation focuses on the work of the R&D Component of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI).