Following the workshop "South-South Exchange on Carbon Emissions Estimation and Carbon Markets" hosted in Colombia in May 2024, a working group of several countries in Latin America are coming together to discuss the task of accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with established carbon standards, a prerequisite for...

The Vanuatu Department of Forestry seeks to develop in-house capacity to generate activity data for their emissions calculations for both the historical and performance period. This hands-on training instructs on the use of the SEPAL cloud computing platform to conduct time-series analysis and map land use change continuously over time....

Scion and ForestSAT welcome you to Rotorua, New Zealand, from 9 to 13 September 2024 for the Association for Forest Spatial Analysis Technologies Conference.

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Information sharing call is a closed event to engage a larger group of experts from lead partner organizations in focused discussions.

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Information sharing call is a closed event to engage a larger group of experts from lead partner organizations in focused discussions.

The global event Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2024) will be hosted in Belém, Brazil from 1 to 8 December 2024.

Every 21st of March we celebrate the importance of forests and the theme for this year is Forests and Biodiversity. Forests are home to 80% of life on land. Forests are too precious to lose, we must monitor and protect them! Read more and watch the virtual celebration at this link. Happy International...

FAO and partners are delighted to invite you to the online seminar “Peatland mapping and monitoring” on Wednesday 18 March 2020 at 9:15 am - 10:45h am CET. The seminar will present a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with leading experts, launch FAO’s publication “Peatland mapping and monitoring: recommendations and...

Representatives from Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and from a number of international GFOI partners will gather together for the 16th GFOI Regional Workshop in the Americas from 21 to 24 January 2020 at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Fort Collins Science Center (FORT). The goal of the workshop is...

Authors of the Methods and Guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) are gathering from 13 to 16 January 2020 at the Basque Center for Climate Change (bc3) in Bilbao, Spain to focus on the refinement of the GFOI Methods and Guidance Documentation (MGD). Under the GFOI, the MGD Component...