Authors:
Frederick Haili Teck, Ngap Dollah Salam, Richard Kho Shu Yuan, Lim Chun Wee, Sim Hui Chin and Alexander Chu Kah Choi
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
land-cover, remote-sensing, sarawak
Documentfile:
ipc16p486-490a329teck.salam_.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
Sarawak peatland covers 1.64 million hectares (ha). Up-to-date land cover information for peat areas is urgently needed to better monitor and understand the changes and developments in such areas. The Department of Agriculture Sarawak, in collaboration with Sarawak Information Systems Sdn. Bhd., have taken the initiative to produce semi-detailed land cover maps using satellite imagery. The tasks involved in this exercise included the collection of ground control points, geo referencing to the local coordinate system, ground sampling, image segmentation, image classification and random result assessments on the ground. A total area of 530,000 ha of land…