TITLE:
Spatiotemporal Monitoring for Deforestation and Forest Degradation Activities in Selected Areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)
AUTHORS:
Saif ur Rehman Khalid, Mobushir Riaz Khan, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Waqar Yasin, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal
KEYWORDS:
Deforestation, Degradation, Carbon Credits, Climate Change
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.7 No.10,
October
27,
2016
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.