Authors:
Viktor Boehm, Michael Schlund , Veraldo Liesenberg and Steffen Kuntz
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
biomass-situation, lowland, peatland
Documentfile:
ipc16p173-178a021boehmschlund.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
Southeast Asian tropical peat swamp forests (PSF) are important for their large carbon stock storage and rich biodiversity. Therefore, the key importance of PSF to ecological processes, their resilience for forest degradation and logging highlights the need for a comprehensive forest monitoring in which LiDAR- and SAR technology may play an important task. Small-footprint LiDAR transects were acquired in August 2007 and 2011 using the Riegl system. The research transects are located at the Mawas Reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The transects encompass an ecological peat dome gradient ranging from the river system to the peat dome. The transects faced in the past different forest degradation intensities. Our main objectives were to map changes in the vertical structure of…