Title
Mapping Forest Cover Change 2014-2018 Bolikhamxay Province, Lao PDR
Author(s)
Jeremy Ferrand and Colin Moore
Published
2018
Abstract
In 2014, Forest Carbon produced an accurate land cover map of the province using Landsat imagery for the entire province. This 2014 land cover map served as the base map for a land cover change analysis from 2003 to 2014 that assessed the deforestation that occurred in the province during this period. There is now a need to update this mapping exercise with data from 2018 to further assess trends and the impact of management activities. WCS solicited Forest Carbon to conduct a land cover change analysis to assess deforestation in Bolikhamxay province and the following protected areas: • Nam Kading National Protected Area (NK NPA); • Nam Gnouang South Protection Forest Area (NGS PFA); • Phou ChomVoy Provincial Protected Area (PCV PPA); • Nhot Nam Mouan Provincial Protection Forest (NNM PPF); • Phou Sithone ESCA (PST ESCA) and the forest delineated for Payment of Environmental Services (in Khamkhuna and Nacheng villages). The following report outlines the methodological approach taken to conduct the change analysis to produce the 2018 land cover map and calculate the associated changes in land cover.
Keywords
forest cover, Bolikhamxay

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