Turning intelligent monitoring into impact
Global Nature Watch Horizon is an open, AI-powered system that transforms cutting-edge land monitoring data into intelligence for understanding Earth’s landscapes. Explore the preview and help shape the future of land monitoring.
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PREVIEWGlobal Nature Watch Horizon is in preview.
Global Nature Watch Horizon is testing new ways to make geospatial information easier to use. Try asking in plain language and explore the insights it can provide.
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Horizon makes advanced monitoring data easy to use,
so you can make smarter, faster decisions for people and the planet.
How will you use monitoring intelligence?
Explore the previewProcessing your intent
When you ask Horizon a question, our system of agents work together to understand your request and deliver the most accurate, relevant answers.
Retrieving quality data
Our data comes via APIs from Global Nature Watch (formerly Global Forest Watch) and Land & Carbon Lab, initiatives powered by contributions from researchers and partners around the globe. This means verifiable data from authoritative sources.
Tuning the AI model's response
We use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to link data retrieved via our trusted APIs with real documentation, methods papers and metadata from our research.
Returning a response
Our agents create summaries of spatial data, search through datasets, and explain insights clearly in your own language.
Horizon serves up the latest breakthroughs in geospatial data from the field-leading research and technology partners behind Land & Carbon Lab and Global Nature Watch (formerly Global Forest Watch).
We're making environmental geospatial data faster, more accessible and easier to use for everyone working to protect and restore nature.
We know that monitoring works. Global Nature Watch (formerly Global Forest Watch) has helped transform how the world monitors forests, putting timely, open data into the hands of users worldwide. Horizon builds on that foundation — bringing together research from Land & Carbon Lab and Global Nature Watch in an experimental, open, AI-powered system that expands monitoring beyond forests to include other ecosystems and land dynamics. Anyone working to protect, restore or sustainably manage land can explore change happening across Earth by asking questions in plain language and receiving responses supported by satellite imagery, maps, statistics and context.
We tackle the hardest challenges in monitoring nature, providing globally consistent data built by some of the world’s most talented experts. Our data is designed to empower real-world action, today and into the future.
With so much geospatial data available, it can be hard to know where to start. Horizon places the power of a personal geospatial assistant in your pocket. AI trained on peer-reviewed datasets helps both experts and newcomers navigate, analyze and apply insights.
We believe the future of monitoring is open, scalable and integrative. That's why Horizon will be able to connect with your own systems, extending the power of your data.
Horizon is developed by Land & Carbon Lab, a research initiative convened by the Bezos Earth Fund and World Resources Institute, in collaboration with Global Nature Watch (formerly Global Forest Watch) and other partners shaping the future of monitoring research, data and analysis.
Founding partners and supporters
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