Global Forest Watch

An online, global and near real-time forest monitoring tool.
https://github.com/wri/gfw

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Forest Observation and Management

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deforestation forest-monitoring mapbox nextjs react redux satellite-imagery

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climate-change conservation sustainability climate wri-api gfw bigdata resilience biodiversity carto

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Global Forest Watch: An online, global, near-real time forest monitoring tool

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/wri/gfw
Owner: wri
License: mit
Created: 2012-05-17T11:16:15.000Z (over 14 years ago)
Default Branch: develop
Last Pushed: 2026-08-12T22:04:44.000Z (8 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-13T00:18:18.945Z (8 days ago)
Topics: deforestation, forest-monitoring, mapbox, nextjs, react, redux, satellite-imagery
Language: JavaScript
Homepage: https://www.globalforestwatch.org
Size: 373 MB
Stars: 319
Watchers: 37
Forks: 96
Open Issues: 21
Releases: 32
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

What is Global Forest Watch?

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is a
dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people
everywhere to better manage forests. This repository contains the GFW web app.

Global forest watch map

Getting started

The GFW web app is built with Nextjs, React and Redux.

Installing the app

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/wri/gfw.git

Installing dependencies:

$ yarn

Copy the .env.sample to .env.local, and start the server:

$ yarn dev

The app should now be accessible on http://0.0.0.0:3000.

Developing

We follow a Gitflow Worklow for development and deployment.
We merge pull requests into develop, which is deployed automatically to both the staging and pre-production servers. In order to release features into production, we merge develop into master, triggering an automatic deployment to production.

gitflow workflow

Staging, pre-production and review apps

We use Heroku to deploy our apps. Production is deployed automatically from master to globalforestwatch.org.

We have two staging environments: staging and pre-production. Both are deployed automatically from develop.
The main difference is that staging points to the staging environments of the APIs we access, pre-production points to the production ones. This is set by the NEXT_PUBLIC_FEATURE_ENV env variable.

We also make use of Heroku's Review Apps feature.
When a pull request is created, a review app is deployed automatically by Heroku with a NEXT_PUBLIC_FEATURE_ENV of preproduction, and a link to the environment is added automatically to the respective pull request.

Releases

We are using github releases to record changes to the app. To help us manage this we are using Zeit Releases, an npm package for handling github releases, tagging commits (major, minor, patch), and automating semantic release logs. For a more detailed explanation of semantic changelogs see this post.

Managing commits for a release

When developing, you can tag your commits as follows: fix some excellent bug (patch) where patch can be (major/minor/patch/ignore). This commit title will automatically be grouped into the correct section for the release. Otherwise you will be prompted during the release to assign (or ignore) each of your commits. You will have to do this for every commit so don't forget to squash!

So how do you make a release on GFW?

Checkout master and merge in develop (not compulsory but advised for consistency).
Run npx release [type] where type can be major, minor, patch, or pre (see zeit docs for more details).
Follow the prompts to manage commits.
You will be taken to github draft release editor with all your commits grouped and ready to go.
Enter your title and include any extra info you want.
Publish!

RW API Documentation for GFW

Map layers and relevant datasets are stored in the RW-API and the globalforestwatch.org/map utilises the layer-manager to render them.

The schema used to style these layers, their legends, and define their interactions are specific to the Global Forest Watch platform.

When creating or modifying layers/datasets for GFW, follow the schema and syntax outlined in the API Documentation markdown file.

To view GFW-specific layers and datasets use the following endpoint:

https://api.resourcewatch.org/v1/dataset?app=gfw&includes=layer,vocabulary,metadata&page[size]=200

BrowserStack

We use BrowserStack to find and fix cross-browser issues.

Owner metadata

Name: World Resources Institute
Login: wri
Email: datalab@wri.org
Kind: organization
Description:
Website: https://wri.org
Location: Washington, DC
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Repositories: 207
Last ynced at: 2024-04-14T16:16:20.039Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/wri

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Total issues: 9
Total pull requests: 843
Average time to close issues: about 2 hours
Average time to close pull requests: 15 days
Total issue authors: 5
Total pull request authors: 18
Average comments per issue: 0.0
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Bot issues: 0
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Past year issues: 2
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Past year issue authors: 2
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Past year average comments per pull request: 0.13
Past year merged pull request: 61
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 16

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Total packages: 1
Total downloads: unknown
Total dependent packages: 0
Total dependent repositories: 0
Total versions: 1

proxy.golang.org: github.com/wri/gfw

Homepage:
Status: removed
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/wri/gfw#section-documentation
Licenses: mit
Latest release: v0.0.0-20260730195800-7aff0d657fb0 (published 21 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-18T16:34:39.012Z (2 days ago)
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