PROJECTSABOUT US Global Forest Watch. Pixel perfection for forest detection. Uniting sophisticated monitoring and analysis with cutting-edge visualisation software, Global Forest Watch revolutionises our ability to track what’s happening in our forests right now. Over the last three years, Vizzuality has engaged with the World Resources Institute and the rest of our partners in GFW to create a new way of visualising forest data. Using the excellent datasets provided by the partnership, we have designed, developed and refined Global Forest Watch into a sophisticated, responsive web-mapping application that puts near real-time data at your fingertips. You can find out if protected areas are conserving forests, explore key trends in your country or see where trees were lost in the last week. The sheer amount and variety of data provides a huge design and engineering challenge. Never before has anyone put together such a vast amount of data about different aspects of forests in an accessible, understandable, easy to use tool. Our mixture of modern design principles, deep understanding of user needs and coding at the edge of APIs helped deliver an award-winning user experience. World Resources Institute. February 2014. CHECK IT ONLINE Open, reusable foundations The whole site is built using a unique combination of customised open source software, bringing together the most advanced technologies and data providers to deliver an interactive and understanable experience. We created the platform’s design guidelines, ensuring a clean, professional and understandable experience across all of the various parts of the site. With our open source codebase and the strong public API, you can use and re-use any part of the platform in your own application. Last week on GFW With the Global Land Analysis and Discovery alerts, we can release fresh new data every week about how forests have changed. What used to be a yearly routine can now be undertaken weekly. And that data is extremely precise: we can detect change at a scale of just 30x30m (half the size of a football pitch). By encoding multiple years of data into single map tiles, changes over time can be animated much more quickly, without the need to download the data for each transition; this significantly boosts performance. High fidelity analysis Tell your own story. With understandable data and a range of options to publish your insight, anyone can create new knowledge. People powered. Working with WRI, our team conducts ongoing research into who uses the tool, and how, so we can continually improve the experience. A tool that works in the office or in the field; with the mobile version, you can tell your story no matter where you are. Embeddable maps. Share your findings with your networks with our range of embed options. Stay tuned. What a difference a week makes! READ OUR BLOG What are people saying about it? Global Forest Watch, which provides reliable and up-to-date data on forests worldwide, along with the ability to track changes to forest cover over time. Marc Gunther, The Guardian Forest protection is about to get a major boost from satellites and AI. Andrew Freedman, Mashable The world lost an Oklahoma-size area of forest in 2013, satellite data show. Brian Merchant, Motherboard globalforestwatch.org Check it online Get in touch. CONTACT US GLOBAL FISHING WATCH Global Fishing Watch ALL PROJECTS TWITTER GITHUB CONTACT BLOG