ALOS Used to Monitor Forests

Saturday, 14 March, 2009 | 00:25 WIB 

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Ratih Dewanti, director of the National Space & Aviation Agency’s (LAPAN) Remote Sensor Development and Utilization Center, said Indonesia will be using Japan’s earth monitoring satellite, the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (JAXA-ALOS), to map forests. “The mapping will cover vegetation, forest density, wood volume and other forestry-related issues,” Ratih said, during a seminar in Jakarta yesterday. 

The collaboration with Japan through the ALOS program began in 2006. The satellite was used to map floods in Jakarta and earthquakes in Yogyakarta. 

REH ATEMALEM SUSANTI