Eventos
31/3
2026
Breaking down data silos: Unifying reference data collection for forest monitoring
31/03/2026
Join our upcoming webinar to discover FAO’s new multi-purpose response design templates—built to help countries meet growing climate and forest-reporting demands with reliable, transparent area estimates. Learn how a unified response design can reduce duplicated effort, improve consistency, and strengthen MRV and National Forest Monitoring Systems. We’ll show how the templa...
12/11
2025
Open Foris Arena user meeting: project examples and updates on the latest development
12/11/2025
Agenda (in Central European Time)
15:00 - 15:05 Welcoming words and agenda Rebecca Tavani, Forestry Officer, FAO
15:05 - 15:15 Experiences with the implementation of a biodiversity project in South Africa using Open Foris Arena. Dr Jeff Morris KwaMandlangampisi Protected Environment Management Committee, South Africa
15:15 - 15:25 Screen...
14/7
2025
18/7
2025
Regional Training on Geographic Information System (GIS), Forest Inventories, and Open Foris Tools
Evento híbrido, 14/07/2025 - 18/07/2025
Organized by the FAO–Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme, this regional training aims to strengthen technical skills in forest data collection and spatial analysis. The training is implemented under the project “Improving Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry (GCP/SEC/025/TUR)” in collaboration with the CBIT-Forest II Project.
6/5
2025
GEO Global Forum "The Earth Talks" Community Event Session 11: Earth Observation for Forests
06/05/2025
The session will showcase the transformative power of Earth Observation in the way we manage, monitor and report on forests - from mitigating climate change, advancing nature restoration and enabling sustainable commodity value chains.
12/12
2024
Open Foris Arena user meeting
12/12/2024
The Open Foris Arena platform, a free and open-source solution, has reached a new milestone with the launch of Arena 2.0. This latest version introduces significant enhancements, making it easier to capture, store, manage, and process survey data in a secure, web-based platform—representing a major step forward in how we monitor and manage forest survey data worldwide.
24/7
2024
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations (Live-Demo: Open Foris Whisp)
24/07/2024
Watch a live demonstration of FAO’s latest forest monitoring innovation to ensure smallholder farmers remain market-accessible.
Time: 12.00–12.30 CEST
Location: Atrium (FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy)
After years of voluntary approaches for reducing deforestation linked to commodity production, mandatory regulations are on the rise (European Union Defo...
15/11
2023
Seminario web "Monitoreo forestal para la acción climática"
Evento virtual, 15/11/2023
Reducir la deforestación, restaurar los bosques y gestionarlos de manera sostenible son caminos vitales para alcanzar los objetivos globales de 2030. El acceso a datos forestales precisos es crucial para los compromisos internacionales sobre la deforestación, la restauración y la acción climática. La FAO es un líder mundial en el monitoreo de bosques y ecosistemas, apoyando a los países en la c...
28/4
2023
25/12
2023
SEPAL online facilitated course series of webinars
Evento virtual, 28/04/2023 - 25/12/2023
Interested in digital platforms and tools for more effective forest and land monitoring? Learn how to use SEPAL.
To support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite imagery to critical forest and land monitoring in tropical forest countries.
The course focused on how the SEPAL platform can support land and forest monitoring. It guided you throu...
7/7
2021
Datos forestales y soluciones de código abierto gratuitas para la Acción Climática
Evento virtual, 07/07/2021
Objetivos del seminario web:
1) Resaltar el papel de los sistemas nacionales de monitoreo forestal (SNMF) en el apoyo a la acción climática;
2) Compartir conocimientos y experiencias de Ghana y Papua Nueva Guinea;
3) Lanzar la última herramienta de código abierto y gratuita de la FAO, creada para apoyar el monitoreo forestal.
30/6
2021
Se.plan – FAO’s new SEPAL-based forest restoration planning tool
Evento virtual, 30/06/2021
The restoration of forests and other key ecosystems is a major pathway to address the concurrent climate and biodiversity crises. To meet the needs of forest restoration planning, FAO, in collaboration with the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), SilvaCarbon and researchers at Peking University and Duke University, have developed a SEPAL-based forest restoration planning tool (Se.plan) that combin...