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The Forest Cover, Land Use, and Land Classification Conundrum in the Philippines – How Remote Sensing Could Contribute Towa “The forest cover, land use, and land classification conundrum in the Philippines – how remote sensing may contribute towards a reasonable classification system” Enrico C. Paringit, Dr. Eng. Department of Geodetic Engineering University of the Philippines Diliman Delivered during the Land Cover/Land Use Changes (LC/LUC) and Impacts on Environment in South/Southeast Asia - International Regional Science Meeting, 28-30th May, 2018, Philippines Outline of this Presentation • Forest change in the Philippines – Forest cover vs. Forest use vs. Forest Tenure • The Phil-LIDAR FREXLS – Canopy Cover Estimation using Airborne LIDAR – Average DBH Estimation and Biomass – Forest Cover Classification – Assessing the NGP sites – Bamboo Identification • From tree cover to forest cover • Concluding Remarks Definitions • FORESTS - Either natural vegetation or plantations of forest crops such as trees, or both, occupying a definable, uninterrupted or contiguous area not less than one hectare in size with the tree crowns covering at least ten percent (10%) of the area (DENR DAO 96-29) • FOREST LANDS -- Lands of the public domain which have been classified as such under the land classification program of the DENR and all unclassified lands of the public domain. DENR – Department of Environment and Natural Resources Forest cover FOREST • Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10% Approximate 68,400 sq.km. Area: Boracay as a landmark issue on Background land classification • The Philippines total land area is ~290,000km2 • Under the Regalian doctrine, all lands of the public domain belong to the State (1987 Philippine Constitution, Art XII, Sec 3) • Under the Public Land Act (Act 2874, ca. 1919), Lands of the public domain are classified into agricultural (A&D), forest or timber, mineral lands and national parks – Forest lands include the public forest, permanent forest or forest reserves, and forest reservations, which the government seeks to protect, develop, and rehabilitate so as to ensure their continuity in productive condition. • Presidential Decree 705 – >18% slope not(A&D) • SC (GR 173775 & 167707): Classification of lands of the public domain is descriptive of its legal nature or status, and does not have to conform to what the land actually looks like Aspects of Forest Change Forest Cover (Physical) Forest Change Forest Forest Land Land Use Classification (Actual) /Tenure (Legal) Tenure in Forest Areas • Lands classified as public forest may be granted tenure for: – Timber License Agreements (TLAs) – no longer issued – Industrial Forest Management Agreements (IFMA) – Pasture Lease Agreements – Community Based Forest Management Agreement (CBFMA) - 25-year term – Certificate of Stewardship Contract (CSC) - 25-year term – Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claim-Community Based Forest Management Agreement (CADC-CBFMA) and Certificate of Ancestral Land Claim-Community Based Forest Management Agreement (CALC-CBFMA) The Philippine Land Classification System Land Classification Unclassified Classified Land Land Alienable and Other Classifications Forest Land (mineral Land, Disposable National Parks ,etc.) Land Classification Map (as of 1989) National forest surveys in the Philippines using remotely sensed data Year Source % Forest Cover Source of Data Method of Interpretation 1973 Lachowski et al. (1979) 38.0 Landsat Digital 1974 Bruce (1977) 29.8 Landsat Visual 1976 Bonita & Revilla (1977) 30.0 Landsat Visual 1980 Forestry Development Center 25.9 Landsat Visual (1985) 1987 Swedish Space Corporation 23.7 SPOT Visual (1988) 2003 National Mapping and Resource No data Landsat Visual Information Authority (2004) 2010 National Mapping and Resource No data Landsat, AVNIR Visual Information Authority (2014) (extended by De Alban (2016) from Kummer et al, 1992) How are forest uses determined and governed? • Protected – NIPAS Act • Forest instruments – Timber License Agreement (TLA) – Community-Based Forest Management Land Use Distribution the Philippines Recent Nationwide Land Cover Maps Recent national land cover maps of the Philippines: (a) 1987 SSC; (b) 2003 NAMRIA; (c) 2010 NAMRIA Forest Cover Classification 1987 map (SSC, 1987) 2003/2010 NAMRIA Land Cover Closed canopy, mature > 50% Closed forest, broadleaved Open canopy, mature <50% Closed forest, coniferous Mossy forest Closed forest, mixed Pine forest Open forest, broadleaved Mangrove forest Open forest, coniferous Marshy area and swamp Open forest, mixed Submarginal forest Forest plantation, broadleaved Forest plantation, coniferous Forest plantation, mangrove (2003 only) Mangrove forest NAMRIA Land cover classification scheme (as of 2003) Classification Code 1 Closed forest, broadleaved NF4F 2 Closed forest, mixed NF4M 3 Closed forest, coniferous NF4C 4 Open forest, broadleaved NF2B 5 Open forest, mixed NF2M 6 Open forest, coniferous NF2C 7 Mangrove forest NFM 8 Forest plantation, broadleaved FPB 9 Forest plantation, coniferous FPC 10 Other wooded land, shrubs Sh 11 Other wooded land, fallow Fa 12 Other wooded land, wooded grassland WGL 13 Other land, natural, barren land BL 14 Other land, natural, grassland GL 15 Other land, natural, marshland ML 16 Other land, cultivated, annual crop AC 17 Other land, cultivated, perennial crop PC 18 Other land, cultivated, pastures Pa 19 Other land, fishpond Fs 20 Other land, built-up area BUA 21 Inland water IW Forest Cover Change • Forest Cover Change estimated from time series ALOS/PALSAR data 2010 to 2015 of the REDD+ Replication Site in Davao Oriental (From GIZ (Estomata), et al. 2016) THE NATIONWIDE DISASTER RISK AND EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT FOR MITIGATION (DREAM) LIDAR PROGRAM (2012 TO 2016) PHIL-LIDAR 1 PROGRAM The National LIDAR Mapping Program of the Philippines • Data Acquisition Phil- • Data Validation • Data Processing DREAM LIDAR1 • Training & IEC • Data Archiving • Agriculture • Forest Phil- • Coastal LIDAR2 • Energy • Hydrology Airborne LiDAR Coverage • For nearly five years of operation, covered over 150,000km2 of LIDAR at 2pts/m2 • Started 22 November 2012 with inaugural flight • All flights conducted until 2017 • Covered mostly flood plains • Covered almost principal and major river basins – 18 principal river basins – 262 major river LIDAR Returns FOREST AREAS WITH LIDAR ± Introduction Philippine Forest (NAMRIA 102,574.49 Land Cover 2010 Forest sq.km. Cover + Other wooded land) Forest with LiDAR (May 17,210.87 2017) sq.km. Percentage of LiDAR 17.18% Coverage in Forest Areas 0 0.250.5 1 1.5 2 Kilometers ± Calibration Sites • 2 hectare plots per site 1. Natural Mangroves (NMF): San Juan, Batangas 2. Mangrove Plantation (MPF): Masinloc, Zambales 3. Nipa Plantation (NPF): Lingayen, Pangasinan 4. Mahogany Plantation (MahPF): Gerona, Tarlac 5. Gmelina Plantation (GmePF): Maramag, Bukidnon 6. Rubber Plantation (RubPF): Maramag, Bukidnon 7. Open Broadleaf (OBF): Los Baños, Laguna 8. Closed Broadleaf (CBF): Gattaran, Cagayan 9. Coniferous Plantation (CPF): Malitbog, Bukidnon 10. Natural Coniferous (NCF): Baguio City, Benguet Puerto Princesa 0 0.250.5 1 1.5 2 Kilometers LIDAR Processing Techniques Developed 1. Canopy Height Model, Canopy Cover Model and Digital Terrain Model from LiDAR Point Cloud 2. Forest Classification Using LiDAR Point Cloud Distribution 3. Detection of Tree Top Using OBIA 4. Use of Digital Hemispheric Photography in Creating Forest Cover Canopy Height Model (CHM) Canopy Cover Map (CCM) Digital Terrain Model (DTM) Forest cover classification using LIDAR data Involves the collection of LiDAR “signatures” • 50 training areas were selected from each calibration sites NMF MPF NPF 5m x 5m pixel size band statistical values for each • MahPF training areas were used for the GPF RPF Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification OBF CBF Right image: selected ROIs displayed in LiDAR composite RGB image (average height, cover, density) CPF NCF From Faelga et al. (2017) Process Workflow From Faelga et al. (2017) Preliminary classification (DTM and CHM bands) Average height Parameter selection Cover Density • Out of the 27 LiDAR parameters, Maximum 16 were selected 10th non- cumulative bincentage (NC10) parameters that are not absolute values NC20 • Inclusion of DTM & CHM NC30 DTM: contextualization of forest types NC40 CHM: removal of undergrowth and non- NC50 tree species NC60 NC • Total number of parameters: 18 70 NC • Parameters were treated as bands to 80 NC create a multi-band raster image 90 NC99 (composite) Quadratic Average Standard Deviation Digital Terrain Model From Faelga et al. (2017) Canopy Height Model Results (Calibration) Overall Accuracy: 83.08% Kappa Coefficient: 0.81 NMF MPF NPF From Faelga et al. (2017) MahPF GPF RPF Ave. point cloud Forest Type Test Site Sensor density per sqm (all returns) Natural Mangroves (NMF) Batangas Pegasus 2.05 Mangrove Plantation (MPF) Zambales Pegasus 3.05 Nipa Plantation (NPF) Pangasinan Pegasus 3.35 OBF CBF Mahogany Plantation (MahPF) Tarlac Gemini/ Pegasus 2.1011.23 Gmelina Plantation (GPF) Bukidnon Pegasus 21.911.23 Rubber Plantation (RPF) Bukidnon Pegasus 11.44 Open Broadleaf (OBF) Los Banos Pegasus 1.31 Closed Broadleaf (CBF) Cagayan Pegasus 3.04 Coniferous Plantation (CPF) Bukidnon Pegasus 2.17 CPF NCF Natural Coniferous (NCF) Baguio Leica 11.75 Results (Calibration & Validation) CALIBRATION (1ST HA PLOTS) VALIDATION (2ND HA PLOTS/ ADJACENT SITES) Overall Accuracy: 83.08% Overall Accuracy: 74.58% Kappa Coefficient: 0.81 Kappa Coefficient: 0.72 From Faelga et al. (2017) NMF MPF NPF NMF MPFMPF NPF MahPF GPF RPF MahPF GPF
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