1. Demand for Remote Sensing Data in Forestry Pacific Island Countries GIS/RS Conference 30 th November 2011 Suva.

2. Overview History of Remote Sensing with Fiji ForestryHistory of Remote Sensing with Fiji Forestry Demands in Remote SensingDemands in Remote Sensing

3. History GIS and Remote Sensing started in Forestry in 1993 With collaboration for the National Forest Inventory of 1991. In line with the assistance of GTZ- GOPA

5. Forest Type / Function Map

7. National Forest Inventory 2006-2007

8. Image Data Source Landsat 7 25m resolution -> 1:50,000 About 30 scenes 2000, 2001, 2002 5 bands available: blue, green, red, near IR, short wave IR Most scene pre-corrected to UTM

9. LandSat 7 Satellite Image

12. Demand for Remote Sensing

13. Logged from Un-logged

14. Determine Different Forest Densities: Dense; Medium Dense; Scattered

16. Determine Coconut from Natural Forest

17. Mapping for Operational Level Mapping for Scale 1:10,000 Digital Terrain Model Slope of >30° - Protected forests

18. Mapping of Logging Areas Stereo Mapping Stereo Mapping 1:10,000 scale 1:10,000 scale Contour lines Contour lines Areas > 30o Areas > 30o

19. Atmospheric Conditions

20. Haze Different thresholds

21. WorldView2 - Drawa

22. WorldView2 - FCIR

23. Challenge

24. Mangrove Mapping

25. Vinaka