Improving Nepal’s Forest Change Estimation
SIG’s Environmental Mapping team partnered with SilvaCarbon to bring a suite of user-friendly tools to the Nepalese Forest Research and Training Center in Nepal.
Mapping Forest Degradation In Nepal With Remote Sensing
Under international climate change agreements, countries must estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation.
In cases of deforestation—when trees are cut and replaced by annual crops, for instance—the change in land cover is clearly visible. Forest degradation, by contrast, is more subtle. Trees are lost but the land remains forested and often recovers quickly—making the changes hard to detect.
