Expected properties of remote sensing applications for forest managers: lesson learnt from their experiences and expectations

摘要

The forest/land managers at landscape level, such as in national parks or forest management units, who have their own hands for implementing management and/or law enforcement, also requires their own eyes to keep watching their lands. In spite of their expectations for long time, however, remote sensing has not been well implemented in the operational monitoring at this level. The lack of mutual understanding between the managers and the experts has been recognized for decades. We studied the experiences and expectations on remote sensing from the forest managers in Indonesia, consisting of forest/park managers and remote sensing researchers from national parks, logging companies, non-governmental organizations, universities, etc. Despite their experiences on remote sensing varied from nothing up to running expert facilities, all of them expected more effective utilization of the technology for their management practices. Majority of the participants identified that cost reduction, capacity building and information sharing were the most important issues for the dissemination. Remote sensing experts should cooperate with the managers, who will to utilize the technology by themselves, by providing appropriate technologies and helping their capacities building.