User-friendly and cost-
effective approach to
identifying agroforestry:
example from Southeast Asia
Karis Tenneson, Todd Rosenstock, Rachmat Mulia, Matthew S. Patterson, Seth
Bogle, Marta Suber, Pham Van Thanh, James Daniel, Nguyen Mai Phuong, Nguyen
Quang Tan, Jacobo Arango

▸More than 30 countries are already using the tool for
reporting (FRL/FREL, GHG inventories, BUR)
▸2019 FAO Remote Sensing Forest Resource
Assessment Map-athons
A free platform for completing
land cover/use inventory

& what does it look like to a bird?

& what does it look like to a bird?

Collect Earth Online
Developed in
partnership with:
▸Open-source, satellite image
viewing and interpretation system
▸Simultaneous data entry with
compilation of user databases
implemented online
▸No need for desktop installation
▸Codebase is shared through the
Open Foris Initiative of FAO
▸Integrated with land cover
classification and area estimation
tools such as SEPAL and GEE

Demonstration

Analysis of activity data
Quantify the prevalence of agroforestry systems in
the six land use classes

Thanks
• To learn more about the use of Collect Earth
Online, visit the website at https://collect.earth/
• Read more about one of the pilot studies here:
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/open-and-
crowd-sourced-mrv-agroforestry-preliminary-
results-and-lessons-learned-pilot#.XRIqdOj0lPY
• Please contact me at
ktenneson@sig-gis.com with additional questions