Pillars and methods

The long-term conservation of tropical forests and wetlands, vital reserves of carbon and biodiversity, imperatively requires international partnerships providing political and financial contracts, such as those of the CPs. In support, there is a need for actionable information for tropical forest conservation, through accurate, near-real-time monitoring of forest degradation, carbon stocks and biodiversity.

The aim of OFVi is to collect and assemble high-quality landscape-scale data to provide robust calibration and validation data for new remote sensing technologies and artificial intelligence to produce better surveillance maps. The initiative's approach is designed to strengthen and co-construct with partner countries. The initiative will be structured around five scientific pillars, the results of which will be available on a data platform :