A fourth FAO international course on Tropical Forest Monitoring has been carried out from 1-12 October 2012 at the Amazonian Regional Center of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE-CRA) in Bélem, Pará, Brazil. Country delegations from Bangladesh and Cambodia were trained on TerraAmazon, the Brazilian open source software platform developed by INPE for the estimation of the annual rate of deforestation (PRODES, the Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Project is considered as the world's largest and most robust forest monitoring system). Read more. 

The training course, as part of the FAO activities of the UN-REDD programme, provide the opportunity for Bangladesh and Cambodia to design their own satellite forest monitoring system, based on the INPE PRODES methodology, tailored to their country specific conditions to report GHG emissions following the IPCC guidelines and guidance.