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Leveraging big data and key partnerships to defend forests
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Leveraging big data and key partnerships to defend forests
We now know more about forests than ever before.
Image: WRI
DATA USERS
GATHER
• Data from satellites and sensors
Forest change datasets
Satellite imagery
• Other contextual data layers from
governments, companies, NGOs, and the
crowd
PROCESS
• Automated interpretation of satellite imagery (to feed
forest change datasets)
• On-the-fly analysis
VISUALIZE
• Display complex data in an easy-to-understand format
• Data overlays to understand drivers of deforestation
SHARE
• A family of easy-to-
use, easy
accessible websites
• Features that
promote sharing
• Subscription/notifica
tion features
Coming soon Coming soon
3 examples of GFW defending forests
Monitoring forest fires in Indonesia
8/25/2015
Monitoring palm oil expansion in Peru
Contextualizing forest clearing alerts
March 2015 April 2015
Alert: May 2015
70+ Collaborators
OTHER COLLABORATORS
Africa Wildlife Foundation
Agence Française de
Développement
Agence Gabonaise d'Etudes et
Observations Spatiales
Airbus Defense & Space
Baker & McKenzie
Blue Raster
Cargill
CIAT, CGIAR
Climate and Land Use Alliance
Conservation International
Digital Globe
Earth Journalism Network
Food & Agriculture Org, UN
FoodReg
Forest Peoples Programme
Forest Watch Indonesia
Liberia Forestry Development Authority
Global Witness
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Greenpeace
INDEFOR
National Forest Institute, Guatemala
IOI Loders Croklaan
IUCN
Ministry of Environment, Nature
Conservation and Tourism (DRC)
Ministry of Forest Economy and
Sustainable Development (Congo)
Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife
(Cameroon)
Ministry of Water, Forests, Hunting
and Fishing (CAR)
Mongabay
Muyissi Environnement
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA FIRMS
NASA JPL
OSINFOR
Planet Labs
Rainforest Foundation UK
Reforestamos Mexico
RESOLVE
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
SarVision
UNEP / WCMC
Unilever
Urthecast
Wildlife Conservation
Society
Winrock
Woods Hole Research
Center
Yayasan Puter Indonesia
Zoological Society of London
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Bobolink Foundation
Blue Raster
CartoDB
Center for Global Development
Danish International Development Agency
Dept. for International Development UK
Esri
Global Environment Facility
Global Forest Watch Canada
Imazon
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Norway International Climate and Forests
Initiative
OSFAC
Swedish Intl. Development Cooperation Agency
ScanEx
The Jane Goodall Institute
The Tilia Fund
Transparent World
United Nations Environment Programme
University of Maryland
U.S. Agency for International Development
Vizzuality
World Resources Institute
Thank you!
globalforestwatch.orgcommodities.globalforestwatch.org
fires.globalforestwatch.org
Alyssa [email protected]
