Open Foris Ground early version test demo session

03/05/2024

A simple, intuitive, and versatile data collection mobile application to empower smallholders to monitor their value chains. Open Foris Ground is an open-source, map-first data collection platform developed to drive sustainability impact at scale. Ground is designed for use by non-technical users with little to no special training.

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 her experience in the use of SEPAL Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the System of Earth Observa...

German Obando (Costa Rica, REDD Secretariat) presents his experience in the use of SEPAL

20/03/2024

German Obando (Costa Rica, REDD Secretariat) presents his experience in the use of SEPAL Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the System of Earth Observation, Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL) helps countries monitor and r...

Heiru Sebrala Ahmed (Ethiopia) shares his experience of using SEPAL

25/09/2023

Heiru Sebrala Ahmed, Director Forest Resources Assessment and Monitoring Directorate for Ethiopia, shares his impressions of SEPAL. Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Mon...

Pham Ngoc Hai (Viet Nam) - feedback on the Open foris tools

14/08/2023

Pham Ngoc Hai from FIPI (Viet Nam) shares his impressions of Open Foris tools: SEPAL (se.plan), Collect Earth and Collect Earth Online.

Collect Earth Online

07/06/2023

Collect Earth Online (CEO) was developed to make it easy for organizations across the world to collect data about their environment using the power of satellite imagery. CEO streamlines photo interpretation and enables local landscape experts worldwide to collect high quality data, enabling ...

SEPAL: A powerful, open-source platform for forest and land monitoring

01/05/2022

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 s...

Earth map – Introduction

16/12/2021

Earth Map is an innovative, free and open-source tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the framework of the FAO - Google partnership. It was created to support countries, research institutes, farmers and members of the general public with internet ...

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

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 ...

Innovative monitoring tools for effective ecosystem restoration

10/07/2019

Julian Fox comments on a recently published article in Science magazine highlighting how Open Foris was used by ETH Zurich and FAO to identify almost 1 billion ha for potential forest restoration worldwide. Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software tools for flexible and efficient envi...

Open Foris - Collect Earth Introduction

16/11/2016

Collect Earth is a tool that enables data collection through Google Earth. In conjunction with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine, users can analyze high and very high resolution satellite imagery for a wide variety of purposes.

Open Foris Collect Mobile – Introduction

16/11/2016

Collect Mobile is a fast, intuitive and flexible data collection tool for field-based surveys.

Collect Earth - land monitoring through visual interpretation

16/11/2016

This video demonstrates the functionalities of Open Foris Collect Earth and its integration with Bing Maps, Google Earth, Google Earth Engine and Saiku. Collect Earth is a Free and Open Source tool that allows easy land monitoring, using freely available services, through a visual interpretation...

Open Foris Collect: Installation and execution

22/03/2016

Part 1.1 of the Collect Earth video tutorial

The first step to design a Collect Earth survey is to design the data to be collected with Open Foris Collect - Survey Designer.