Webinar "Forest monitoring for climate action"

Virtual Event, 15/11/2023

Reducing deforestation, restoring forests, and sustainable forest management are vital pathways for achieving 2030 global goals. Access to accurate forest data is crucial for international commitments on deforestation, restoration, and climate action. FAO is a global leader on forest and ecosystem monitoring, supporting countries to build robust national forest monitoring systems. The webinar "...

SEPAL online facilitated course series of webinars

Virtual Event, 28/04/2023 - 25/12/2023

Interested in digital platforms and tools for more effective forest and land monitoring? Learn how to use SEPAL.
To support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite imagery to critical forest and land monitoring in tropical forest countries.
The course focused on how the SEPAL platform can support land and forest monitoring. It guided you through s...

Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action

Virtual Event, 07/07/2021

Objectives of the webinar:

1) Highlight the role of national forest monitoring systems (NFMS) in supporting climate action;

2) Share knowledge and experiences from Ghana and Papua New Guinea;

3) Launch FAO’s latest, free open-source tool, created to support forest monitoring.

Se.plan – FAO’s new SEPAL-based forest restoration planning tool

Virtual Event, 30/06/2021

The restoration of forests and other key ecosystems is a major pathway to address the concurrent climate and biodiversity crises. To meet the needs of forest restoration planning, FAO, in collaboration with 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) that combin...