Forest

loss / gain / use

Global / annual / 30m

Tropics / monthly / 500m*

Amazon / monthly / 250m

* FORMA - our baby!

geekosystem.com: "Front row seat to tree murders!"

Maybe just forest change?*

* le sigh ...

Make Informed decisions

or ... use for ammo?

Before:

Not much data

Questionable reliability

Nestle / Unilever / Wilmar

"deforestation free" supply chains

Lots of food scientists

Few map/data geeks

Global / national / local

NGOs / communities / gov'ts

Use all the open data

Everyone has the same (open) data

Ex-prez of Mexico Felipe Calderon

"Usually gov'ts and corporations have all the information, and the people have nothing.

Not anymore."

It's all downloadable

Public APIs coming ...