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“Monitoring forest health and designing sustainable solutions is a challenging task, but an essential one,” Esri president Jack Dangermond said. People can use the service to track deforestation throughout the world. In tandem with the launch, Global Forest Watch data went live on ArcGIS Online, extending the GIS cloud platform to Global Forest Watch data users. On February 20, World Resources Institute launched the Global Forest Watch website. The analytical capabilities of GIS enrich our understanding of the earth’s forests of not only where but why and how."

"GIS helps us take very powerful data and make sense of it.

Nigel Sizer, director of the global forest initiative World Resources Institute said. "Thanks to dramatic advances in technology, we can, for the first time, see what is happening in forests in near real-time," Dr. Esri, the world leader in GIS, strongly supports the GFW mission to empower people everywhere to better manage forests. Global Forest Watch, a partnership of more than 40 organizations led by the World Resources Institute, uses GIS maps and data to promote sustainable forest management and policy. By using a portal on Esri’s platform to access GFW Global Forest Watch satellite data and crowd-sourced information, people can add powerful maps, datasets, and applications to their forest projects and better analyze indicators of forest change. Redlands, California-Data from Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and alert system is now available on Esri’s ArcGIS Online GIS cloud service.