Measuring deforestation using remote sensing and its implication for conservation in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

4th International Symposium on LAPAN-IPB Satellite for Food Security and Environmental Monitoring

农业科学;生态环境科学

Fawzi, N.I.^1 ; Husna, V.N.^2 ; Helms, J.A.^3

Conservation Program, Yayasan Alam Sehat Lestari Sukadana, West Kalimantan, United States^1

Environmental Research Center, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia^2

Health in Harmony, United States, Portland

OR, United States^3

关键词: Community empowerments;    Ecosystem services;    Forest conservation;    Forest cover change;    Forest rehabilitation;    Mixed dipterocarp forest;    Remote sensing analysis;    Remote sensing data;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/149/1/012038/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/149/1/012038

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Gunung Palung National Park (1,080 km2, 1°3' - 1°22' S, 109°54' - 110°28' E) was first protected in 1937 and is now one of the largest remaining primary lowland mixed dipterocarp forests on Borneo. To help inform conservation efforts, we measured forest cover change in the protected area using 11 multi-temporal Landsat series images with path/row 121/61. Annual deforestation rates have declined since measurement began in 1989, to around 68 hectares per year in 2011 and 112 hectares per year in 2017. Halting deforestation in this protected area requires to tackle its underlying economic and social causes, and find ways for communities to meet their needs without resorting to forest clearing. Community empowerment, forest rehabilitation, and health care incentives as payment for ecosystem services can help reduce deforestation in Gunung Palung National Park. This becomes a positive trend which we must continue to always work in forest conservation. Future forest monitoring will be dependency with remote sensing analysis and open source remote sensing data such as Landsat and Sentinel data remain an important data source for historical forest change monitoring.