The presentation provides an overview of the Open Foris tool

1. Introducing Open Foris tools
CAPITALIZATION ON THE EU LAND GOVERNANCE
PROGRAMME
FAO HQ - Rome
June 28th 2018
Lauri Vesa
Forestry Department, FAO

2. Open Foris initiative
Free and open source tools and methods for data collection, analysis and reporting
 Collaboration - private and public partners; academic institutions.
 Country testing - OF tools have been promoted in many countries, including those receiving
support under the UNREDD programme, REDD+/NFM cluster and Global Forest Resources
Assessment (FRA).
 Capacity building - training sessions on all OF tools in all regions of the world.
 Implementation - more than 20 countries have integrated OF tools in their forest monitoring
systems.
 Software development - new and improved versions of the tools are released periodically.
KEY Principles
www.openforis.org

3. Field
Methodology
(manual)
Collect Desktop
Workflow in typical field assessment
Data analysis
and reportingSurvey definition
Survey Designer
Data management,
validation and
cleansing
Data Manager
Calc & Saiku
Collect Earth
Visual Data Collection
using remote sensing data
Collect Mobile
Field Data Collection

4. Open Foris tools work in different environments:
Linux, Windows, macOS and Android
Create a survey definition file
Collect in computer A
Collect Mobile
Collect in computer B
share
Transfer
data
Transfer data
4
Share survey
to desktop
Share survey
to tablets
Open Foris Collect

5. Auto-generated user interface
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6. 6

7. Open Foris Calc
Case: Zambia National Forest Inventory (ILUA-II)

8. 8
OF Calc with SAIKU reporting tool
SAIKU is an easy and fast tool to get aggregated result tables.
Tables can be exported easily into MS Word, Excel, R, etc.

9. 160+ training events
800 +
Installations / Downloads
15,000 +
5,800 +
1,400 +

10. Vietnam
Full OF
implementation
Bangladesh
NFI
SE Survey
Ethiopia
NFI
SAFE prj.
Uganda
NFI
SE
Survey
SAFE prj.
Myanmar
NFI
Chad,
Mongolia
Pastoralist
communities
(AGA)s
PNG
Full OF
implementatio
n
Ecuador, Peru
NFI, SE survey,
province level Tanzania,
Zambia
Full OF
implementation
Kazakhstan
Collect
Mobile
Dairy farmers
Argentina
NFI – data mgmt.
DRC
NFI
Featured and most recent OF implementations

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Open Foris and FAO Forestry collaboration
- capacity building at all stages

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Future development: Open Foris Online
FAO Forestry (under UN-REDD global project) has started
developing Open Foris Online system (2018 – 2020).
Current OF tools are integrated and streamlined, and made
available to countries in a secure cloud-based environment.
This project will focus on requirements set for Forest Reference
(Emission) Level reporting, REDD+ results, and the National Forest
Monitoring Systems (NFMS).

14. Thank you,
and please visit
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www.openforis.org