Discriminating between large-scale oil palm plantations and smallholdings on tropical peatlands using vegetation indices and supervised classification of LANDSAT-8

• Main Authors: Oon, Aslinda, Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi, Lechner, Alex Mark, Azhar, Badrul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79404/1/Discriminating%20between%20large-scale%20oil%20palm%20plantations%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79404/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2019.1579944?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Tropical peat swamp forest is rapidly being converted into industrial-scale oil palm agriculture across South-east Asia. This has global and local environmental implications including habitat loss and carbon release. Monitoring oil palm expansion or land-use/land-cover on peatlands is feasible using...