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Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. GFW is an initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI), with partners including Google, USAID, the University of Maryland (UMD), Esri, Vizzuality and many other academic, non-profit, public, and private organizations.
As of January 2021, WRI used Global Forest Watch to generate a forest carbon flux map that combined data about emissions and removals of forest-related greenhouse gases. Using a new method for integrating ground, airborne, and satellite data to measure carbon fluctuations in forests, they were able to map forests worldwide at a resolution of 30 ...
[153] [154] According to Global Forest Watch, this was a 3.1% decrease in primary rain forest in that period. [155] In 2014, the Map of the Peruvia Amazon showed that more than 25% of the lost forest area was part of idigenous territories and protected natural areas. [156] During 2020, the Peruvian amazon lost more than 200 000 hectares. [157]
Global Forest Watch, Providing tools for global forest protection efforts (launched 2014) Global Fund for Women (founded 1987) Society for Space Research (German: Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung (GfW) ), German Aerospace Center predecessor (1948–1972)
According to Global Forest Watch, Kenya lost 14% of its tree cover between 2001 and 2023. In late 2022, Kenya’s Forestry and Land Restoration Acceleration program committed to planting 15 ...
Imazon partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) in developing the Global Forest Watch platform for monitoring the world's forests in real time. [2] In December 2009 Google demonstrated the cloud-based "Earth Engine", using the Sistema de Alerta de Deforestation (SAD) from Imazon and the CLASlite system from the Carnegie Institution ...
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According to Global Forest Watch, from 2001 to 2020, most of the loss of forest cover in the Philippines took place in Palawan. Other provinces that have lost significant forest cover are Agusan del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Davao Oriental, and Quezon Province. [16]