News

On this page all the updates on the ForestForesight package and the open access data will be given

Jun 5, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-06-01 till 2025-12-01)

Jun 5, 2025 updated the predictions to our data repository to include predictions and preprocessed data till 2025-06-01

May 6, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-05-01 till 2025-11-01)

May 6, 2025 updated the predictions to our data repository

Apr 17, 2025 The Forest Foresight package has been updated to 4.3.0 where we have switched from AWS to Microsoft Azure and had to rebuild ff_sync. When you update, ff_sync will work again as expected. We have added the option to download the risk areas as well.

Apr 17, 2025 updated the predictions to our data repository that can be interacted with using ff_sync

Apr 7, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-04-01 till 2025-10-01)

Apr 1, 2026 The servers of Forest Foresight for direct download are currently offline. We hope to be online soon and will update this page

Mar 5, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-03-01 till 2025-09-01)

Mar 5, 2025 updated the predictions to our closed data repository, which will sync next sunday with our open data repository (2025-03-09)

Feb 11, 2025 uploaded the predictions to our closed data repository, which will sync next sunday with our open data repository (2025-02-16)

Feb 11, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-02-01 till 2025-08-01)

Jan 5, 2025 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2025-01-01 till 2025-07-01)

Jan 1, 2025 Release of open source package 4.2.0 with implemented checks for all ff functions for the data class input. This will prevent unrecognizable errors later on in the script since it is guaranteed that all datasets have the right class. Also implemented the option to automatically calculate the best threshold in ff_run (which should only be done for analytical purposes)

Dec 21, 2024 Release of open source package 4.1.0 with additional functionality for ff_run and the accuracy report (ff_accuracyreport). Also added ff_environment() for initial environment setup, which we recommend everyone to run.

Dec 17, 2024 updated the predictions on our dashboards (with prediction date 2024-12-01 till 2024-06-01)

Dec 6, 2024 The ForestForesight package was updated to version 4.0.0 with many new functionalities

Dec 2, 2024 ran the predictions and uploaded them to the AWS bucket (with prediction date 2024-12-01 till 2024-06-01)