One of the most challenging aspects of monitoring forest change in Guyana is the persistent cloud cover. Before forest loss can be identified, the operator must first search for cloud-free imagery over the target area. Changes occurring under persistent-cloud, are not detected. To this end, Indufor has developed a complementary…
In 2009, Indufor and Durham University began developing Guyana’s forest monitoring system alongside the Guyana Forestry Commission. The outcome is an operational national monitoring system that reports deforestation at one-hectare scale. The forest change record spans ten years, and the information produced supports Guyana’s resource monitoring efforts. A further, but yet untapped, potential is the…
With an innovative approach applying satellite & aerial imagery, Guyana Forestry Commission, supported by Indufor and Durham University completes 10 years of monitoring and reporting continuous nationwide forest loss. The national mapping initiative funded by Norway commenced in 2009. The first forest change baseline was created using historical 1990 satellite imagery further processed to…
One of the primary uses of satellite imagery for many applications is to monitor change across landscapes. Randomly scattered cloud across images is one an obvious nuisance that frustrates this process, and often analysts must resort to using manual interpretation and digitising to record changes. This issue can be overcome…