The assessment of Mangrove Forest Carbon Stock Monitoring of Indonesia using Remote Sensing Approach

National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN)

The largest areas of mangrove in Southeast Asia are found in Indonesia (almost 60% of Southeast Asia's total) which comprises about 19% of world's mangroves (FAO 2007). Recent research found that mangroves are among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics which containing on average 1,023 Mg carbon per Hectare (Donato et al., 2012). Ironically, mangrove forests are threatened by land use/land cover change as well as global climate change. Rates of deforestation/conversion are among the highest of all tropical forests, far exceeding rates in upland forests (Valiela et al. 2001; Langner et al. 2007). In this study, estimation models will be created from mangrove forest vegetation biomass using several indices using differences reflectance from several bands such as red, Near Infrared and Shortwave Infrared. If the RADAR data is available subsequently it will be analyzed using a combination of optical and RADAR satellite data. The objectives of this prototype are;