Collecting data for about 50 thousand samples falling within its territory, Brazil provided a significant contribution to the FRA 2020 Remote Sensing Survey.
Two workshops were organized to train national officers for the data collection, an event held in Belém in May 2019 and a virtual training held in June 2020.
Over 150 experts engaged in the data collection and, thanks to their knowledge of local ecosystems, they managed to cover fully Brazil's different biomes. For this occasion, the Brazilian Forest Service also produced six explanatory videos in Portuguese for the participants, one for each biome: Amazonia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Mata Atlantica, Pampa, Pantanal.
With this exercise, a promising collaboration has been established, which could eventually help Brazil to scale up efforts to monitor, protect and sustainably manage their unvaluable forest resources.
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