Spatiotemporal Monitoring for Deforestation and Forest Degradation Activities in Selected Areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)
- 1 Department of Geo-Informatics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 2 Department of Geo-Informatics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 3 Department of Geo-Informatics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 4 Department of Geo-Informatics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 5 Department of Geo-Informatics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Abstract
The global significance of forest ecosystems requires precise determination of the amount of carbon stored in different forest ecosystems. Regular monitoring of forests can aid in designing efficient climate change control strategies at national and global scale specially in reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation strategies. This research is designed to focus on determining deforestation of study area from 2001 to 2011 using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. This research provided rate and amount of degradation of forests in the study area and was quite helpful in formulating a strategy to earn carbon credits consistently and, therefore, will help in the uplifting of the standards of local population.
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