25. September 2025

DIASCA Forest Monitoring Webinar - From field data collection to open, public commodity maps

Dear Friends of DIASCA,

After our last webinar on OpenForis Whisp, a tool for deforestation risk assessments bringing together global and regional public maps to scan them with an open-source algorithm, it is time to look at one project that creates such public maps to inform risk assessments.

In this webinar, Bashara Abubakari, Senior Application Specialist at the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) of the University of Ghana, will present on a geolocation campaign conducted with Open Foris Ground earlier this year which collected more than 21,000 polygons of cocoa plots in Ghana.

Subsequently, Katelyn Tarrio, a PhD candidate and Earth Engine Solutions Scientist at Google, will present how these data were used to train a machine learning algorithm to create a Cocoa Probability map for the Forest Data Partnership.

As usual, in the third half hour of the webinar we give room for discussion to you, the participants, to exchange on the topic of the webinar, on challenges and solutions, and on support needs.

To accommodate for the time difference with the US, this webinar will be a little later than usual. We cordially invite you to join us on Thursday, September 25th, from 4:00pm - 5:30pm CEST.

We look forward to welcoming many participants to this webinar and to rich discussions on this DPI building block!

Sincerely,

Your Team DIASCA

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