SEPAL’s goals are to support countries in their efforts to halt tropical deforestation and degradation, and to enhance reforestation and restoration by:

• providing a free, easily accessible, powerful platform for efficient geospatial data access and customized processing;
• enhancing global capacity to operationally apply high-resolution satellite images to critical forest and land monitoring issues; and 
• building country capacity in high-resolution satellite imagery applications for critical forest and land monitoring issues in response to domestic policy needs.

The project will directly benefit 64 countries through different capacity-building modalities toward autonomous use of the data for key forest and land monitoring needs. In addition, some countries will receive targeted support and commitment, leading to the institutionalization of data use at the national level, thus strengthening institutional arrangements and linkages to policy formulation, implementation and evaluation through capacity development at the national level.