Open Foris: Free open-source solutions for forest and land monitoring

Free open-source solutions for forest and land monitoring

Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software platforms that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways:

  • national forest inventory and in-situ data collection;
  • measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for environmental integrity;
  • deforestation-free supply chains; and
  • restoration monitoring.

Part of FAO's open-source digital public goods, it serves as a transformative accelerator, ensuring innovative, accurate, and transparent forest monitoring accessible to everyone, everywhere, enhancing effectiveness and impact, while meeting the urgent need for systems that enable accurate, yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of forest and other land cover.

 

 

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Highlights

Cocoa mapping in Cameroon: EU Sustainable Cocoa Programme advances sustainable production and forest protection
25/11/2025

The European Programme for Sustainable Cocoa (SCP), the operational arm of the European Initiative for Sustainable Cocoa, implemented with FAO, supports...

Open Foris Arena User Meeting showcases innovative field applications on forests and beyond
17/11/2025

More than 70 participants from research institutions, academia, and field projects joined the

Open Foris Arena – a solution for easy and efficient forest data collection and analysis
11/09/2024

Arena is a cloud-based platform for storing and processing data collected in field inventories and questionnaires. It provides a fast and flexible way...

Sharing the experience on Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action - SEPAL
24/07/2023

The overall objective of this course is to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite...

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