ASSESSMENT OF LARGE SCALE LAND COVER CHANGE CLASSIFICATIONS AND DRIVERS OF DEFORESTATION IN INDONESIA

THEME: Forests, Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecosystems (BIOD theme). This is an invited presentation to be presented at the special session of “Trends in operational land cover mapping”, which has been approved by the Technical Program Committee and the chairs of the sessions are Konrad Wessels (CSIR, South Africa) and Brice Mora (GOFC-GOLD/Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Indonesia possesses the third largest tropical forests coverage following Brazilian Amazon and Congo Basin regions. This country, however, suffered from the highest deforestation rate surpassing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2012. National capacity for forest change assessment and monitoring has been well-established in Indonesia and the availability of national forest inventory data could largely assist the country to report their forest carbon stocks and change over more than two decades. This work focuses for refining forest cover change mapping and deforestation estimate at national scale applying over 10,000 scenes of Landsat scenes