Quantification of Indonesia’s Forest Cover Loss 1980‐2000 and Provision of Exhaustive Monitoring System on Natural Forest Deforestation 1980-2016

Principal Investigator:

Matthew Hansen

CO Investigators:

Peter Potapov

Sponsor:

Time period:

2014

2017

Researchers:

Belinda Margono

Svetlana Turubanova

Alexandra (Sasha) Tyukavina

Project Description:

In order to develop a set of comprehensive data, including exhaustive data on deforestation from 1990s or beyond up to recently, and within the frame of the Indonesian One Map Movement, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) is seeking a credible and exhaustive monitoring system generated from year 1980s, under technical collaboration with the University of Maryland. The University of Maryland required to provide data sources, perform data processing and data analysis, validate the results, and deliver validated results to the GOI. This work designed to be part of technology transfer in order of strengthening the national capabilities. Quantify the gross forest cover loss from 1980s to 2000 in a 30 m spatial resolution map for the whole of Indonesia. Provide an exhaustive monitoring system that document the clearing (deforestation) of the natural forests of Indonesia from 1980s up to 2016 in a 30 m spatial resolution.

Related Publications:

Parker, D., Tosiani, A., Yazid, M., Sari, I. L., Kartika, T., Kustiyo, Firmansyah, R., Said, Z., Wijaya, A., Potapov, Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S.V., Zalles, V., Pickens, A., Pickering, J., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M. C. (2024) Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), e2318029121.

Turubanova, S., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., and Hansen, M. (2018) Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters

Margono, B.A., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Stolle, F. and Hansen M.C. (2014) Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia, 2000 to 2012, Nature Climate Change.

Broich, M., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., and Wimberly, M. (2013) Patterns of tree-cover loss along the Indonesia-Malaysia border on Borneo, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34, 5748-5760.

Margono, B.A., Turubanova, S., Zhuravleva, I., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Baccini, A., Goetz, S., and Hansen, M.C. (2012) Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010, Environmental Research Letters, 7.

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