More light is being shed every day on the exact role of Trees outside forests in sustainable natural resource management, and in rural and urban land management. A plethora of tree systems, …

Dec 15, 2023 · The Trees Outside Forests (TOF) Indicator aims to monitor trees that are growing outside forests on farms, in orchards and tree plantations, in cities, along roads and in parks …

Nov 25, 2021 · Trees outside of forests are numerous and can be important carbon sinks, while also providing ecosystem services and benefits to livelihoods. New monitoring tools highlight …

NASA has funded an international team of US and African institutions to study a new land cover transition in systems of Trees Outside of Forests (TOF), that could have important implications …

Mar 10, 2020 · Using aerial imagery and computer learning algorithms, Forest Service researchers have developed methods to locate and map the trees that form windbreaks. The first phase of …

There is no direct definition of `trees outside forests' (a neologism coined in 1995). The concept is defined by FAO by default in terms of the forest, as follows: trees growing outside the forest …

Trees outside the forest (TOF) include trees in cities, on farms, along roads and in many other locations which are by definition not a forest. All trees make a contribution to the environment …