# FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment
*methodology . standards*

Quinquennial FAO-led methodology and reporting framework consolidating official national statistics on forest area, growing stock, biomass, ownership, management, disturbance, and related variables across 194 countries and areas. FRA defines standardised national reporting tables, forest and deforestation definitions, and the FRA Remote Sensing Survey methodology using the Landsat archive via Google Earth Engine and Collect Earth Online for sampling-based area estimation. First conducted in 1948 and quinquennial since FRA 1990, it is the canonical global authority on forest statistics against which all satellite-derived forest area products are benchmarked.

## Specifications
- **version**: FRA 2025
- **authority**: fao
- **url**: https://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/en
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified

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