Radar monitoring system for sustainable forest management in Indonesia

Author

Hoekman, Dirk H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Water Resources, Wageningen Agric. Univ., Netherlands

Volume

4

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

1731

Abstract

The year 2000 is considered as the final year for the obligation to reach sustainable forest management for timber production. To support management and to verify proper execution of guidelines and legislation, appropriate observation tools should be available. Current observation techniques suffer too much from severe cloud cover. The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and the Tropenbos Foundation coordinate research into the utility of advanced radar techniques. In this paper some of the information needs and first research results are given

Keywords

forestry; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; Borneo; Celebes; Indonesia; Indonesian Ministry of Forestry; Java; New Guinea; Sumatra; Tropenbos Foundation; advanced radar method; geophysical measurement technique; radar monitoring system; radar remote sensing; sustainable forest management; timber production; tropical forest; vegetation mapping; Clouds; Forestry; Government; Guidelines; Hydrologic measurements; Legislation; Monitoring; Production; Spaceborne radar; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.609048

Filename

609048