Carbon Stocks In OKI Regency Peatland - A Benefit Transfer Approach

Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) regency has the largest peatland area peatland in South Sumatera province. A benefit transfer method is proposed in this paper to calculate the peatland carbon stock. While this approach may not resulted in a highly accurate carbon stock figure when compared to a more time a...

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Published in2018 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Geoscience, Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology (AGERS) pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Martono, Wisnu Ali, Gandharum, Laju
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2018
Subjects
benefit transfer method
Biomass
Carbon
Estimation
Forestry
Ogan Komering Ilir Regency
peatland carbon stock estimation
Remote sensing
Soil
Vegetation mapping
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Summary:Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) regency has the largest peatland area peatland in South Sumatera province. A benefit transfer method is proposed in this paper to calculate the peatland carbon stock. While this approach may not resulted in a highly accurate carbon stock figure when compared to a more time and resource consuming survey and sample plot method, the resulting carbon figure is still useful for general planning requirements. The benefit transfer method uses similar survey approach for carbon stock calculation, namely consist of the five pools: above-ground biomass, subsurface biomass, deadwood, litter, and soil. Assuming the lack of detailed information of those five pools, this approach uses a benefit transfer method to estimate the five pools of carbon stocks. Benefit transfer method is a method (widely used in natural resources studies) in which available information from studies completed in another location is used. This paper has estimated that the (soil pool) peatlands in OKI regency holds 409,470,154 tonnes of carbon stock.
DOI:10.1109/AGERS.2018.8554205