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World Resources Institute. “Places to Watch”. Accessed through Global Forest Watch on [date]. www.globalforestwatch.org.

Places to Watch

Weisse, M.J., R. Petersen, S. Sargent, S. Gibbes. 2017. “[Places to Watch: Identifying High-Priority Forest Disturbance from Near–Real Time Satellite Data](https://www.wri.org/research/places-watch-identifying-high-priority-forest-disturbance-near-real-time-satellite-data).” Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.

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This data set identifies high-priority areas of GLAD deforestation alerts each month, based on the coverage of Intact Forest Landscapes, Protected Areas, and recent GLAD alerts. The 16 tropical countries with GLAD alert coverage (as of October 2017) are split into 10 km × 10 km grid cells, which are assigned a "Concern Score" based on the proportion of the grid cell covered by IFLs or Protected Areas. The Concern Score of each grid cell is then multiplied by the number of alerts detected in that cell in the previous month. The top 10 grid cells from each continent are then selected as potential Places to Watch. Using this list of 30, GFW experts review all thirty places to determine the areas of greatest concern based on evaluation of satellite imagery, contextual information, and their own expert knowledge. The GFW team then solicits additional information from an “Action Network” of partners who may have further details about what’s taking place in these locations. Once the information is collected, GFW shares these Places to Watch with the world via a monthly blog and newsletter, and through the GFW platform. More information on the methodology and curation process involved in Places to Watch is available here: https://www.wri.org/publication/places-to-watch. If you have additional information to share about a Place to Watch, or are interested in joining our Action Network to provide more information about places near you, please email us at PlacestoWatch@wri.org. Sign up here to receive each Places to Watch curation in your email, and share these places on social media using the hashtag #PlacestoWatch!

Identify areas of high-priority GLAD alerts on a monthly basis. Sign up for the newsletter [here](http://connect.wri.org/l/120942/2017-12-07/3mtt5w).

Places to Watch is an automated algorithm, and as such, may miss areas that some would consider “high-priority”. Additionally, the algorithm does not consider the legality of identified Places. WRI makes every effort to ensure that information distributed as part of Places to Watch is accurate, but some information comes from an Action Network of on the ground partners and is not possible for WRI to verify. If you do notice any inaccuracies, please email us at [PlacestoWatch@wri.org](mailto:PlacestoWatch@wri.org).

https://www.wri.org/publication/places-to-watch

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