Improvement of the forest cover-changes cartography from global forest change for critical deforestation regions in Mexico. Case of the Lacandona Region 2014-2021
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Global Forest Change (GFC) is a global monitoring system with moderate resolution (Landsat, 30 m pixel) that allows knowing the location and magnitude of the losses or gains of global forest cover. Critical Forest Change (CFC) is a calibration system based on comprehensive photo interpretation (1:10,000 scale for change editing, and 1:5,000 scale for interpretation-
confirmation of change strata), with diagnostic criteria supported by field data of the National Forest Inventory (scale 1:1, period 2014-2021). CFC reduces until 85.8% the overestimation of the forest loss of GFC in the case of the Lacandona Region (327,646 ha). The process included the analysis of data at 330 study sites and the interpretation of 1,190 frames of Spot-6
(April 28, 2014) versus Sentinel-2 (April 24, 2021) in higher resolution (10 m). The annual rate of forest loss obtained by GFC (4,526 ha.yr-1) is 1.87 times higher than the LFC rate (2,415 ha.yr-1). Through a comparative analysis between the cartography of GFC and CFC, it was possible to identify that 19.2% of the differences correspond to phenological changes (leaf fall
deciduous, greenness variation, or alteration of the biomass due to eventual changes in humidity). 31.3% by Landsat spatial resolution limitations, 3.8% occurs in changes by industrial plantations, 11.6% of the differences can reduce by eliminating the GFC residuals outside the forest FAO definition (changes less than 0.5 ha), 7.4% of the differences correspond to
atmospheric noise in the interpreted images, 6.8% to visual omissions and 19.9% there are no changes by interpretation. The cartographic adjustment of GFC by CFC is relatively fast (1,000 ha.hr-1 per photointerpreter-expert). Its implementation improves the spatial coherence, periodicity, and legibility of the areas of change, strengthening the relevance of both systems in local policy decisions. Cartographic results of this work are available at http://selvalacandona.ecosur.ourecosystem.com
Keywords: Selva Lacandona; Critical Forest Change; Global Forest Change; Forest Monitoring; Deforestation.
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