Assessment of Mangrove Forest Carbon Stock Monitoring of

Indonesia Using Remote Sensing Approach

Remote Sensing Applications Center

Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space

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Background
Mangrove management in Indonesia
Mangrove biomass mapping in Indonesia
Proposed prototype project objectives
Benefit of the Activity
Members to Be Involved
Study area
Proposed Method
Workplan
Activity progress
Future works

Background
The most rich C stock in the world (1,023 Mg/ha), but less attention
compare with other ecosystem of humid tropical forest (Donato et al.,
2012)

Indonesia is the largest

areas in Southeast Asia
which is the highest
biodiversity in the world

Threatened by
LULCC

Mangrove
Forest

Need a monitoring

(overharvesting,
aquaculture, etc.)

Field data solely is insufficient

It has an ecological and

economical function

Remote Sensing is
desirable

Mangrove management in Indonesia

Ministry of Forestry (MoF) has the major authority to manage

the mangrove resources in Indonesia

Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fishery (MMAF) concern with

the mangrove resources for the well-known important
contribution of the mangrove to the coastal fishery

Annual updating status of forest since 2012, including

mangrove by MoF using RS data

Indonesia mangrove area is about 2,8 million ha (MoF)

One map policy program is in an effort to build a unified

reference standard, databases, and geoportal.
Including Biomass mapping

Mangrove biomass mapping in Indonesia

The National Coordinating Agency for
Surveys and Mapping
(BAKOSURTANAL): mapped mangrove
areas of Indonesia using Landsat (2009)

Estimated biomass is mostly done in

dry land forests as moist tropical
forest

ALOS PALSAR recommended for

mangrove mapping due to its
effectiveness (Rocha, 2012)
HV band is better correlated with
AGB (Surati et al., 2013) compared to
other SAR band.
Joint SAR and ETM increase the
accuracy of biomass estimation
and LU classification (wijaya et al.,
2009)

No established national
program for monitoring of
biomass or carbon stock of
mangrove forest using RS

ALOS PALSAR is more accurate for

high biomass (Enghalrt., 2011)

Mangrove biomass mapping in Indonesia

By combining the existing biometric techniques and soil
sampling to calculate the variation of above and below
carbon stocks (Donato et al., 2012)

Monograph allometric (MoF, 2012)

Remote sensing Data

Direct calculate forest biomass approach

(Goetz., 2009)

Proposed prototype project objectives

Mapping mangrove forest of Indonesia using RS

Assessment of mangrove forest changes using RS

To determine the model for mangrove forest biomass and

carbon stock in Indonesia using RS

Benefit of the activity

Developing monitoring system of mangrove forest,

biomass and carbon stocks in Indonesia using RS

Recognizing the phenomenon of carbon stock changes

for a several strategic areas of mangrove forests in
Indonesia using RS

Optimizing the use of RS data for monitoring natural

resources of Indonesia.

Member to be involved

National Experts
(Universities)

Technical supporters
(Tokyo Univ, AIT, Jaxa)

Data and Application

Creator

(LAPAN)

End User
(MoMAF)

Study area

Lampung

Segara anakan

Study area
Previous projects:

1. ASEAN-US Coastal
Resources
Management
Project (1989)
2. German-Indonesian
SPICE (Science for

Source: Ardli.,
2008

the
Protection
of
Indonesian
Coastal
Marine Ecosystems),

2003-2010

Explore:
1. information on the physical and biogeochemical environment
management for pond-reared fish species, biological indicators, etc)
2. Economics and social assessment (potential conflics, etc)
No advance research for mapping mangrove biomass

(LCC, feeding

Study area

Source: Ardli., 2012

Segara Anakan Cilacap: 15.827ha (1987), 9.238 ha (2006)
There are 26 mangrove species of the 45 that exist throughout Indonesia (Ardli et al)

Proposed Method
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Mangrove forest mapping

Satellite Images
(SPOT, very high resolution
imagery)

Mangrove forest
basemap (MoF)

Image processing

Image Classification

Accuracy assessment

Post Classification

Mapping and
change detection

Proposed Method
2. Mangrove forest biomass and carbon stock estimation
ALOS PALSAR
(HH and HV)

Biomass= f (HH, HV)

DBH (field plot)

Allometric equation
Biomass= f (dbh)

Biomass*
map

Sample plot biomass with

species and density
SPOT and very
high resolution
imagery

Mangrove forest
classification into
species and density

Note: *Carbon stock is calculated using the estimated biomass

Sources: Dien et al., 2011 (Vietnam safe prototype)

Mangrove forest
biomass into species
and density

Workplan
Activity

1st Year

2nd Year

1. Mangrove forest mapping

Literature Study and
coordinating with end

Jan-Mar

user/partner
Collecting of data (SPOT, Very

High Resolution imagery)

Data processing
Mangrove classification
Field work

Jan-Jul
Apr-Jul
Jun-Sep
May

Mapping and changes

NovDec

analysis
APRSAF (Safe workshop)

Sep-Oct

Jun

Dec

Jun

Dec

Workplan
Activity

1st Year

2nd Year

2. Biomass estimation
Literature Study
Collecting, and processing
ALOS PALSAR/ALOS 2,
AVNIR, SPOT)

Jan-Mar
Jan-Apr

Nov-Dec
Jun

Field work

Sep-Oct

Developed model

Feb-Mar

Nov-Jan

Validation

Apr-Jun

Mapping

Jul-Sep

3. Estimation Carbon
stock
Literature Study
Field work
Calculate carbon stock
Mapping and assessment
mangrove forest carbon
changes

Jan-Mar
Sep-Oct

Feb-Mar
Apr-Oct
Nov-Dec

Activity progress

Meeting with MoF (Jan 11, 2013)

Attendees:
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Mr. Agus Hidayat (LAPAN)

Ms. Ratih Dewanti (LAPAN)
Ms. Maryani H. (LAPAN)
Dr. Ety Parwati (LAPAN)
Yenni Vetrita (LAPAN)
Rohimah (LAPAN)
Mr. Iman Santosa (MoF)

Results

MoF expressed their supports for our research

Activity progress

Meeting with national experts (Bogor Agricultural University)

(Feb 01, 2013)

Attendees:

LAPAN team member

Prof. Dr. Cecep Kusmana
Prof. Dr. Dietrich G. Bengen

Results:
Giving their support, input, and suggestion through this project
(study area, some matters to be considered through mangrove
ecosystem, state of the art, etc)
They expected this prototype is not only to build the model but can
be applied easily with the certainty of availability data in future

Activity progress

Meeting with national experts (Soedirman University)

(March 01, 2013)

Giving his information relate to the study site

(Segara Anakan)

Activity progress

Kick off Meeting (Feb 04, 2013)

LAPAN need to ensure the activities and plan for the

next 6 months particularly for the next meeting with
the end user
MoF decided not to get involved actively through this
project

Activity progress

Meeting with MoMAF (April, 2013)

They have a similar program relate to

biomass mapping

They expressed their interest on our project and will give their support on it.

Activity progress

Field survey (May 27-30, 2013)

Activity progress

Field survey (May 27-30, 2013)

Measure:
DBH
species (biodiversity)
height trees
spectral each species
(using spectrometer)
trees density,

Future works
1st year

Processing and analyzing RS and field data

Mapping mangrove and changes

Training SAR

Thank you