Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software platforms that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways:
- measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for environmental integrity;
- deforestation-free supply chains; and
- restoration monitoring.
Part of FAO's open-source digital public goods, it serves as a transformative accelerator, ensuring innovative, accurate, and transparent forest monitoring accessible to everyone, everywhere, enhancing effectiveness and impact, while meeting the urgent need for systems that enable accurate, yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of forest and other land cover.
Highlights
Arena workshop
14/09/2023
Training in Forest Inventory Data Management and Analysis with Open Foris Arena and Arena Mobile
25 – 28 September, 2023, FAO HQ
Ximena Herrera (Ecuador, Ministry of the Environment) presents her experience in the use of SEPAL
20/03/2024
Ximena Herrera (Technician in Forest Monitoring and Forest Inventories, Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador) presents...
Sharing the experience on Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action - SEPAL
24/07/2023
The overall objective of this course is to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite...
Optimize field data processing with the Open Foris Arena Tool
20/12/2023
Arena is a free, open-source, cloud-based multifunctional platform for effective survey design, data entry, management, processing, and reporting of forest inventories and other field data collection campaigns. The tool ensures robust databases and helps generate accurate statistics with minimal effort thanks to a user-friendly interface.
Partners
- National Forest Monitoring
- SEPAL
- CBIT-Forest
- AIM4Forests
- REDD+ program
- Global Forest Resources Assessments
- Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
- FERM platform
- Google Earth Engine
- UN-REDD Programme
- NICFI Satellite Data Program
- Planet
- United Kingdom's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety
Contact
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Roma RM (Italy)
[email protected]