Overview

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

Over 250,000 individual users from more than 196 countries benefit from FAO’s Open Foris initiative to measure, monitor, and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways: Halting deforestation, Restoration, and Sustainable Production.

Open Foris offers various platforms for data gathering, analysis, and reporting, facilitating cost-effective and accurate monitoring of forest cover and other land covers, thus accelerating the development of operational National Forest Monitoring Systems.

Impact on the ground

Over 14 billion tCO2 of forest emission reductions or enhancements have been reported to UNFCCC.

Technical innovation, demonstrated by FAO's Open Foris and platforms, like Collect Earth and SEPAL, has enabled over 90% of UNFCCC submissions during the last 10 years, enabling accurate forest measurement, monitoring, and reporting. 70% of the countries have received Technical Assistance from FAO.

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OPEN FORIS BY NUMBERS

250,000 individual users

From more than 196 countries

> 13,000 people trained in using the platforms

The FAO’s Forest Monitoring for Climate Action e-learning curriculum provides free and open e-learning for all elements of forest monitoring.

To date, 15,700 learners have embarked on the learning journey and 3,300 digital badge certificates have been earned.

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Integrated solutions

To learn more about each application, visit Open Foris website

FERM

A global platform to register, monitor, and share restoration efforts with geospatial tools and data, supporting the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.