Paper Info
Title
A remote sensing study in support of the Kokoda Track conservation initiative
Abstract
The Kokoda Track area of Papua New Guinea is geographically diverse, with terrain varying from coastal areas to steep mountains, and biomes that extend from mangroves, to grasslands and savannas, and primary forests. The area is the subject of conservation measures using remotely sensed data in a collaboration between the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments. We describe this Kokoda Track initiative and the land cover mapping to be used as a basis for land use planning. We discuss hydromorphological analysis and land cover classification extracted from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Our land cover analysis has employed two classification techniques, both object-based, and has included texture measures calculated from SAR imagery. The output is a high resolution classification product, to be used by local government stakeholders.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6048976
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
land use planning,remote sensing by radar,synthetic aperture radar,terrain mapping,Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar,Kokoda Track conservation initiative,Papua New Guinea,SAR imagery,coastal area,grasslands,hydromorphological analysis,land cover classification,land cover mapping,land use planning,mangroves,primary forests,remote sensing,remotely sensed data,savannas,steep mountains,terrain,Digital Elevation Model,InSAR,forestry,image analysis,land cover classification
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,Radar tracker,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Terrain,Digital elevation model,Biome,Land cover,Land-use planning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996
978-1-4577-1003-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alina I. Yohannan100.34
Mark L. Williams29511.53
Ian Tapley382.77
Julian C. Fox400.68
Anthony K. Milne5417.49
Andrew Taplin600.34
James Sabi700.34