Sarah Carter is research associate at WRI’s Global Forest Watch. In this interview, Sarah highlights the importance of the Open-Earth-Monitor project, and discusses its outreach and potential by drawing comparisons with the World Resource Institute’s Global Pasture Watch platform, a project using ensemble machine learning algorithms, visual interpretations, crowdsourcing, and earth observation data fusion to produce per-pixel probabilities of land use and land cover, livestock density, short vegetation height, and gross primary productivity (GPP) to produce recurrent and high-resolution (30-meter) maps for pasture areas and productivity from 2000 onwards. The interview further explores how the OEMC project can advance large-area estimation of forest carbon emissions and develop seamless environmental monitoring app solutions.