National Forest Monitoring
01/08/2023

Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data collection, analysis and reporting. Accurate information is critical to the sustainable management of natural resources. Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL) helps countries monitor and report on forests and land use. An easy-to-use interface...

20/10/2022

The event showcases the innovative work of FAO and its partners to understand the interlinked challenges facing forests and forest-proximate peoples worldwide. Presentations highlight advances in generating and analyzing forest-related data and information including democratizing access to freely available remote sensing data and computing platforms, improving the sustainability of forest products value chains and using ‘big data’ to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, as well as helping countries to report...

20/06/2022

SEPAL (openforis.org/sepal) is a freely available, open-source, powerful computing platform that helps users make efficient and effective use of satellite data for autonomous land monitoring. Information is key to making good land management decisions. Satellite data provides an invaluable source of land, water, and atmospheric observations for identifying, measuring, and monitoring threats and improvements to global natural resources. However, the vast quantities of data available, however, can...

09/03/2022

The Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) platform has been developed for tracking progress of efforts to restore degraded ecosystems, in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The FERM enables transparent monitoring of ecosystem restoration progress by providing access to up-to-date information, tools and indicators. With these resources, people, communities, and countries can access and produce information that tracks and informs their own restoration efforts in terrestrial...

09/03/2022

The launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration in June of this year propelled forest and other ecosystems restoration to the forefront of global discussions. To advance restoration efforts, FAO, 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) to help identify and prioritize restoration locations. The tool combines ecological data on forest restoration with...

09/12/2021

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research (INIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Forestry Institute of Chile (INFOR), and the European NFI Network (ENFIN), hosted the webinar, “United for nature: keeping a close eye on forests in Latin America and the Caribbean.” This event brought together forestry...

25/10/2021

Laura Bourgeau-Chavez and Michael Battaglia from the Michigan Tech Research Institute present and discuss procedures for the design of field study to map peatlands. The demonstration, in the open access software QGIS exemplifies how to define the soil sampling plan with a representative sample size. This presentation is framed in the Webinar series ‘Locating and mapping peatlands’ of the Global Peatlands Initiative project, financed by IKI, implemented by UNEP, FAO...

25/10/2021

The Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI) and project partners support Indonesia’s efforts to integrate peatland considerations into relevant national planning and policy processes, including options for conservation, protection, restoration, sustainable use, and monitoring. The workshop, as part of a series of activities, aimed to showcase concrete opportunities for Indonesia to further develop and scale-up positive experience with sustainable, wet peatland management. The event took place on 18 March 2021. The workshop...

25/10/2021

The Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI) and project partners support Indonesia’s efforts to integrate peatland considerations into relevant national planning and policy processes, including options for conservation, protection, restoration, sustainable use, and monitoring. 

07/09/2021

Latin America and the Caribbean are home to about a quarter of the planet’s forests, and these ecosystems provide vital goods and services to communities and indigenous peoples in the region. With the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration in June of this year, the global community has stepped up its efforts to restore and protect ecosystems such as these. With support of UN-REDD Programme and other initiatives,...

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