sustainability Article Land Cover Changes from 1990 to 2019 in Papua, Indonesia: Results of the Remote Sensing Imagery Sri Murniani Angelina Letsoin 1,2,*, David Herak 1 , Fajar Rahmawan 3 and Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri 4,5,* 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic;
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[email protected] 4 Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic 5 Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 28, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany * Correspondence:
[email protected] (S.M.A.L.); purwestri@fld.czu.cz (R.C.P.); Tel.: +420-776-569-772 (S.M.A.L.) Received: 16 July 2020; Accepted: 11 August 2020; Published: 16 August 2020 Abstract: Long-term land cover changes play a significant driver of ecosystem and function of natural biodiversity. Hence, their analysis can be used for evaluating and supporting government plans, especially conservation and management of natural habitats such as sago palm. In Papua Province of Indonesia, sago palm has been stated as one of the priority plants in the Medium-Term Development Plan (R.P.J.M.). However, limited studies have examined this palm in one of the Regencies of Papua Province, namely, Merauke Regency. In this study, we performed remotely sensed data imagery and supervised classification to produce land cover maps from 1990 to 2019.