Characterizing Peat Swamp Forest Environments with Airborne LiDAR Data in Central Kalimantan (Indonesia)

Abstract

Hans-Dieter Viktor Boehm, Veraldo Liesenberg, Juergen Frank and Suwido H. Limin

Natural tropical Peat Swamp Forests (PSF) are important for their rich biodiversity and because they represent important carbon pool [1]. However, PSF are decreasing due to conversion into farm land, by excessive draining, the use of shifting cultivation on a large scale, pal oil plantation, illegal logging and forest fire. This increases the interest for understanding in an ecological point of view and mapping such environments as they are recognized as an important source of carbon released in the atmosphere [1-5].

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