USGS Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Ecuador

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is an initiative of the inter-governmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) that aims to:

foster the sustained availability of observations for national forest monitoring systems; support governments that are establishing national systems by providing a platform for coordinating observations, providing assistance and guidance on utilizing observations, developing accepted methods and protocols, and promoting ongoing research and development; and work with national governments that report into international forest assessments (such as the global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO) and the national greenhouse gas inventories reported to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) using methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

全球森林观测倡议（Global Forest Observations Initiative，简称GFOI）系地球观测间政府小组（Group on Earth Observations，简称GEO）的一项倡议，旨在：促进国家森林监测系统观测数据的持续可用性；为正在建立国家系统的各国政府提供协调观测的平台，并提供利用观测数据的方法与指导、制定公认的方法与协议，以及推动持续的研究与发展；并与向国际森林评估（如联合国粮食及农业组织（Food and Agriculture Organization，简称FAO）的全球森林资源评估（Forest Resources Assessment，简称FRA）和向联合国气候变化框架公约（United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change，简称UNFCCC）报告的国家温室气体清单的各国政府合作，采用政府间气候变化专门委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change，简称IPCC）的方法。