# Google Research — Forecasting the future of forests with AI: From counting losses to predicting risk

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2025-11-05T15:41:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Models affected: ForestCast
- Source: https://research.google/blog/forecasting-the-future-of-forests-with-ai-from-counting-losses-to-predicting-risk/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1395-forecasting-the-future-of-forests-with-ai-from-counting-losses-to-predicting

Google Research announces ForestCast, a deep learning model for forecasting deforestation risk using pure satellite data, and releases a public benchmark dataset for training such models. The model uses vision transformers and achieves accuracy comparable to or better than methods relying on specialized input maps.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/forecasting-the-future-of-forests-with-ai-from-counting-losses-to-predicting-risk/:

> We're excited to announce the release of “ForestCast: Forecasting Deforestation Risk at Scale with Deep Learning”, along with the first publicly available benchmark dataset dedicated to training deep learning models to predict deforestation risk.

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