Forest and landscape restoration monitoring is an important component of a well-rounded restoration implementation strategy. This guide serves to assist stakeholders in monitoring tree-based restoration, with a focus on trees outside forests, such as trees on agricultural and pastoral landscapes and within cities and towns—using a Collect Earth mapathon approach.
This guide provides an overview of how to implement Collect Earth “mapathons”— coordinated data-collection events that gather together a small group of practitioners to visually interpret imagery and complete surveys using Collect Earth. This guide is intended for anyone who has established their goals for forest and landscape restoration and is examining ways to monitor progress toward those goals. It provides guidance on where to begin and what tools are available to support their monitoring program.
This publication presents four case studies where WRI, FAO, and partners used Collect Earth mapathons to collect biophysical data on landscape features to assess various characteristics such as progress toward tree cover goals or identify opportunities to further implement landscape restoration activities.