Global Forest Watch

Global Forest Watch is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. The tool provides a map and dashboard to empower users to better protect forests. The user can explore global and local datasets to learn about conservation, land use, forest communities and more. The map allows to see deforestation over time and you have access to global and country stats to analyze forest change and trends.

Thematic Areas: 

• Mixed Land Uses

Target Audience: 

• Citizens
• Academy
• Policy makers
• Land managers
• All Others

Application Area: 

• Interaction and visualization

Spatially specific: 

• yes

Input data: 

• Qualitative

Output data: 

• Aggregated data

Time requirement:

• Low

World Resources Institute (WRI)