Materials – Open Foris

Materials

Open Foris on GitHub

Open Foris

Handy Shiny apps

Plot grid generator for creating a sampling grid (cluster – plot). Outputs as CSVs and shapefiles.
Bootstrap simulator provides insight into the increase in the accuracy of estimates of the mean as sampling intensity is increased.
Analysis of tree height, as a function of the breast height diameter (DBH) using R package lmfor.

Earth Map materials

Help Center

Collect Earth Online materials

Lectures and recordings

SEPAL materials

Latest documentation

Collect: Survey templates

1a – Forest Inventory. Survey with multiple entities (2 files: .collect, .collect-data) (English)
1b – Data structure and R scripts for Calc (PDF)
2a – Forest Inventory. Simple point sampling survey (2 files: .collect, .collect-data) (English)
2b – Data structure and R scripts for Calc (PDF)
3 – Household survey: agricultural production (.collect, .collect-mobile) (English – Portuguese)
4 – Forest Inventory. FAO NFMA type inventory (.collect) (English)
5 – Forest Inventory template (cluster-plot–several_entities) (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
6 – Forest Inventory template (plot–subplot-several entities) (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
7 – Forest Inventory template (cluster-plot–subplot-several entities) (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
8 – Forest Inventory template (plot–several entities) (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
9 – LUCAS 2018 (Eurostat) land cover & land use survey (English)
Templates for the FAO Forestry Paper 179 “National socioeconomic surveys in forestry”
Handbooks:

– EN: https://www.fao.org/publications/card/en/c/I6206E/
– FR: https://www.fao.org/publications/card/en/c/I6206FR/
– ES: https://www.fao.org/publications/card/es/c/I6206ES/
– EN forms: https://www.fao.org/forestry/forestry-modules/en/
Household and Community surveys for Collect (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
Household and Community surveys for Collect Mobile (.collect-mobile)
(separate files for English, French, Spanish)- In OF Arena these surveys are as templates.

– Household and Community surveys for Collect (.collect) (English-French-Spanish)
– Household and Community surveys for Collect Mobile (.collect-mobile) (separate files for English, French, Spanish)
– In OF Arena these surveys are as templates.

Arena and Collect: Naming of entities and attributes

R e c o m m e n d a t i o n s f o r n aming of entities, attributes and variables in Arena and Collect (PDF, updated 19/01/2023)
Lists of names (Excel file) (19/01/2023)

Arena and Collect: species coding approach

Species coding approach for Arena and Collect (PDF)
Species coding – R scripts and sample data (19/12/2018, updated 17/8/2022)

Collect and Calc: a forest inventory project

Technical document for a forest inventory case (PDF)

Arena and Calc: tree height estimation with lmfor R package

lmfor for height prediction (PDF)
R scripts (text file)

Paper to scientific publication

Collect Earth: Land Use and Land Cover Assessment through Augmented Visual Interpretation Remote Sens. 2016, 8(10),807

Earth Map: A Novel Tool for Fast Performance of Advanced Land Monitoring and Climate Assessment JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING 2023, Vol 3

Forest monitoring e-learning curriculum

Course: E-learning series: Forest monitoring for climate action (fao.org)