Global Forest Watch

Watching the world's forests from space, in near real time.

An open forest monitoring platform: tree cover maps, deforestation alerts, and data available to local communities, journalists and governments.

And where does AI come in?

Algorithms analyse satellite imagery to detect tree cover loss and raise alerts, where a human observer would arrive too late.

Model or technique: GLAD-L: decision trees on Landsat imagery (University of Maryland); RADD: probabilistic detection on Sentinel-1 radar (Wageningen).
Model published: Not filled in
Where it runs: Not filled in
Data: Landsat, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery; alerts published under CC BY 4.0.
Role of people: An alert flags possible deforestation, to be checked on the ground; GLAD-L learned from pixels labelled by experts.
Frugality: Not filled in

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