Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests. Explore over 100 global and local data sets to learn about conservation, land use, forest communities, and much more.

Global Forest Watch is an online platform with the best available data about forests. With the click of a button, anyone can now see when and where trees are disappearing, ushering in a new era of radical transparency for the world’s forests.

Explore the state of forests worldwide by analyzing tree cover change on GFW’s interactive global forest map using satellite data. Learn about deforestation rates and other land use practices, forest fires, forest communities, biodiversity and much more.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an award-winning platform that was created by the World Resources Institute in 1997. In 2014, they launched a free, fully interactive online platform with forest monitoring data for the whole world, creating unprecedented transparency about the state of our planet’s forests.

Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize key statistics about global forests. Statistics and global rankings – including rates of forest change, forest extent and drivers of deforestation – can be customized, easily shared and downloaded for offline use.

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.

Monitor areas of interest, view deforestation and fires alerts, navigate to a point to investigate, and collect information about what you find, regardless of connectivity. Forest Watcher mobile is a complete application on its own.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an interactive online forest monitoring and alert system designed to empower people everywhere with the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes.

Global Forest Watch uses technologies including Google Earth Engine and Google Maps Engine to map the world’s forests with satellite imagery, detect changes in forest cover in near-real-time, and make this information freely available to anyone with Internet access.

Feb 19, 2014 · Global Forest Watch (GFW) is a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system empowering people everywhere to better manage forests. For the first time, GFW unites satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to guarantee access to …