Forest land cover change detection and mapping afforestation suitability in Dong Nai River Basin of Vietnam | |
| Author | Le Ngoc Lam |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.RS-06-18 |
| Subject(s) | Land use--Vietnam--Dong Nai River Basin Deforestation--Vietnam--Dong Nai River Basin Reforestation--Vietnam--Dong Nai River Basin Geographic information systems--Vietnam--Dong Nai River Basin |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Deforestation, a world wide problem, some negative effects come from which have been warned and a lot of reforestation programs have been implemented while it still appear every where. In order to have a suitable policy and a right development strategy in sustainable forest management and development, the research focuses on monitoring forest land cover changes and suitability afforestation zoning for Dong Nai River Basin by using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing as the main tools. At the results revealing that depletion rate of forest or deforestation in Dong Nai River Basin has been determined to appear very quickly with 1% yearly. Some reforestation programs and activities of national, regional and local governments being implemented such as National Five Million Hectare Reforestation Programme of Vietnamese government and annual reforestation planning of Dong Nai and Binh Thuan provinces achieved some first results in planting separate forest tree and reserving protected forest areas in upper-stream of Dong Nai River Basin. Following orientation development of afforestation programs, the research at first tries to find out suitable areas for reforestation which are barren land, cleared forest areas from 1995, buffer zone of Deng Nai River. These suitable sites after that had been evaluated for suitable plantation of some tree species such as Acacia, Eucalyptus, Pine, and Teak. Result of finally suitable zoning shown that highest suitable area in high suitability (SI) is Eucalyptus with 78,094 ha occupying 39.14%, Acacia with 57,765 ha occupying 28.95%, 47,994 ha occupying 24.06% is the suitable area of Teak while Pine has a smallest suitable area with 40,802 ha occupying 20.45% of total area |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Remote Sensing (RS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Nitin Tripathi |
| Examination Committee(s) | Honda, Kiyoshi;Shrestha, Rajendra Prasad |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Ministry of Education and Training Vietnam |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |