1. OSFACO O BSERVATION S PATIALE DES F ORÊTS D ’A FRIQUE C ENTRALE ET DE L ’O UEST Camille PINET IGN France International cpinet@ignfi.fr

2. OSFACO Projet d’Observation Spatiale des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale et de l’Ouest : 2016-2018 Provide access to satellite data to contribute to improving knowledge and understanding of historical and current landuse and landuse change dynamics in 8 central and western African countries GEOFORAFRI Renforcement des capacités et accès aux données satellitaires pour le suivi des forêts en Afrique Centrale et de l’Ouest OSFT Observation spatiale des forêts tropicales du Bassin du Congo > Build on the results obtained in the OSFT and GEOFORAFRI projects

3. Cloud cover < 20% All the images are ortho-rectified Pivot 2010 : images SPOT4 & SPOT5 acquired between 2008 et 2012 Resolution 20m et 10m Production and delivery of SPOT images Pivot 2015 : images SPOT5 & SPOT6 acquired since 2013 Resolution 10m et 1,5m Over the Congo bassin OSFT

4. Observation Spatiale des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale et de l’Ouest 2016 - 2018 OSFACO Satellites images Landuse and landuse change mapping Capacity building

5. Satellite images  Images SPOT d’archive (1986-2010) Partnership with the SPOT World Heritage programme (CNES - Airbus)  Acquisition of recent SPOT images : pivot 2015 (SPOT6 & SPOT7) : 683.000 km² Western Africa and more than 1 million km² in Central Africa  Image Quality Control and support for the management of image databases in the supported countries.  Free distribution to users (NGO, universities, research instituts, privtae companies, administrations et ministeries, etc) by the national focal points in each supported countries – via a specific use licence Component 1 OSFACO

6. Merci de votre attention Camille PINET - cpinet@ignfi.fr

7. DATA ACCESS CONDITIONS Two levels of licence : -National Authority (distributor) -User Central Africa : licence REDDSPOT West Africa : licence Forest & Agriculture Free availability of data for all projects -whose use of the data upholds the licence criteria -In exchange for the signed licence Creation of a steering committee including the 8 country focal points - sharing information on the images requested and the supported projects, the distribution process already established or to be established, best practice.