Se.plan – A Forest Restoration Suitability Decision Support Tool
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 2022-02-02

The launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration in June of this year propelled forest and other ecosystems restoration to the forefront of global discussions. To advance restoration efforts, FAO, the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), SilvaCarbon and researchers at Peking University and Duke University, have developed a SEPAL-based forest restoration planning tool (se.plan) to help identify and prioritize restoration locations. The tool combines ecological data on forest restoration with data on its benefits, costs, and risks. 
This video introduces users to se.plan, which is intended to support the preparation of strategic restoration plans for a given region—a country, group of countries, or area within a country—allowing users to specify their restoration objectives and constraints. The tool provides the best available global data to create restoration suitability scenarios that demonstrate the most cost effective restoration areas and allow users to integrate custom data sources to generate spatially explicit information on restoration suitability and impacts. This video shows how to navigate through the tool and customize the objectives and datasets to meet the users’ needs. The information gathered using se.plan can help determine where restoration efforts will be most effective and cost-efficient. 
Learn more about se.plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gJjpL2AjQ 


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