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 Time in the High Sierra: Using Arena Mobile and Citizen Science to Document Trees at Record Elevations, Sierra Nevada, CA, USA Sachi Srivastava, MSc. Student University of California, Davis | Safford Vegetation and Fire Ecology Lab, USA
15:25- 15:35 How to use Arena Open Foris beyond inventory plots. Solutions with Open Foris Arena for inventorying shrublands. Oscar Garcia Companys / Field Researcher University of California, Davis, USA
15:35 - 15:45 Mobile data collection in research and applied forest inventory projects. Dr. Lutz Fehrmann University of Göttingen, Germany
15:45 – 15:55 Keeping things organized: Arena's role in a long-term study on Adaptive Forest Management. Bryant Nagelson, Forest Ecologist University of Nevada, Reno, USA
15:55 - 16:15 Digital farm audits: see more, get results. Inna Punda, Agribusiness Officer FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
16:15 - 16:30 Questions and answers
16:30 - 16:40 Arena and Arena Mobile: latest new features, and development plans. Stefano Ricci and Lauri Vesa FAO
16:40 - 16:45 Closing remarks by Rebecca Tavani, Forestry Officer FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy