Monitoring logging in the tropical forest of Republic of Congo with Landsat imagery

Author

Laporte, Nadine T. ; Lin, Tiffany S.

Author_Institution

Woods Hole Res. Center, MA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

2565

Abstract

Selective logging is the most extensive land use in the Congo Basin, with more than 40% of the forest allocated to timber concessions. Little information is available to monitor the spatial expansion of timber extraction and its impacts on tropical forests. As part of the INFORMS project, "An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa," we have developed a simple system to monitor the extension of logging roads using multi-temporal Landsat imagery. We also tested the utility of Landsat imagery in estimating logging intensity. This system is being used within the national forest services of the Republic of Congo and Cameroon to monitor logging expansion.

Keywords

forestry; geophysical signal processing; vegetation mapping; Cameroon; Central Africa; Congo; INFORMS project; Integrated Forest Monitoring System; Landsat imagery; logging roads; national forest services; spatial expansion; timber concessions; timber extraction; tropical forest; Acceleration; Africa; Data mining; Image processing; Image resolution; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Roads; Satellites; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294510

Filename

1294510