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OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land

Transparent project presentations and exciting project stories take stakeholder engagement to a new level Krefeld, Germany — October 30, 2018: OpenForests, an innovative German forest consulting and tech company, just released the explorer.land platform. The interactive map-based platform is designed to present forest and...

October 30, 2018

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

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Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

How OpenForests poked the box and developed innovative Forest Information Services. Becoming a professional How do we become professionals? A general opinion is that we become professionals by gaining special skills through higher education and further training. My experience, however,...

October 26, 2018

Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

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Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

Land Cover detection through Remote Sensing The goal of this work was to determine the current land cover of a concession in Ethiopia. The sustainable management of forest concessions requires detailed information about the current land cover and the distribution...

October 17, 2018

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The Core Concept of Sustainability

No concept is more inflationary, misused and at the same time so important. This article outlines the importance of the initial sustainability concept and how it describes our relationship with the world and the nature over time. Today’s inflationary and...

August 23, 2018

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

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6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Costly missteps can be avoided by gaining a basic understanding of application development processes and design principles. Why are information systems needed? Thousands of forest operations and forest landscape projects run successfully using Excel files and Word documents. But there is...

July 5, 2018

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Remote Sensing for Forest Landscapes.

What you need to know to get it right! Introduction to remote sensing For whom? This article addresses professionals like foresters, ecologists, project developers, certifiers, and environmentalists (in the following called natural resources managers) who are new to the field of remote sensing...

June 7, 2018

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

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Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

Where to draw the line? The debate goes on. What is sustainable and what is unsustainable forest management practice? It already starts with the definition of sustainability which has various concepts and is still in progress. As an introduction to this...

April 27, 2018

Transparent and successful communication about your forest project

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Transparent and successful communication about your forest project

Greater disclosure + more clarity + more accuracy = More transparency More transparency = more trustworthiness + better relations with your stakeholders = More success! That’s the simple formula. But what does it mean for an organization to be more transparent and how to...

March 22, 2018

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A Map is Worth a Thousand Words

How interactive web maps revolutionize the communication for landscape reforestation projects. My experience is, that it is difficult to describe a reforestation project towards an external, e.g. an investor, in a way that he gets a clear and complete project...

October 19, 2017

Automated tree detection through Drone Mapping

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Automated tree detection through Drone Mapping

Forest inventory information is very important, especially during the first months and years after the plantation establishment. Having information about the mortality and growth dynamics of the plantation supports improved decision-making related to replanting, soil improvement, and early thinning activities....

April 17, 2017

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Author: Alexander Watson

OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

The Core Concept of Sustainability

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Remote Sensing for Forest Landscapes.

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

Transparent and successful communication about your forest project

A Map is Worth a Thousand Words

Automated tree detection through Drone Mapping

Not all forests are the same: why planting trees isn’t the same as restoring a forest

Europe’s Heat Wave is a Nature Crisis

Carbono Biodiverso: Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda’s local carbon protocol brings transparency and community benefit to Mexico’s sub-national carbon market

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