Research Group Takes down Controversial Indonesia Fire Analysis. Rochmyaningsih, D.
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The government had criticized the claim that more than 1.6 million hectares were burnt this year. [Excerpt] How much did Indonesia burn this year? An international research organization has taken down an online report that suggested fires burnt more than 1.6 million hectares of land in the country during 2019, 40% more than the government's own calculations for the same period. [\n] The Indonesian government and local scientists had criticized the analysis, by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), saying that it relied on satellite data that hadn’t been confirmed with ground observations. [...] CIFOR, whose headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, published the analysis on 2 December based on time-series imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 Earth-observation satellites. [...] Before the meeting with the ministry, David Gaveau, a landscape ecologist at CIFOR in Bogor, told Nature that the differences in the data might stem from the different satellite imagery the two groups relied on. [...] A previous study that compared Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 images for mapping logging in the Brazilian Amazon1 found little difference between the accuracy of the two satellites, but other research showed that Sentinel-2 was 5% more accurate at mapping land use in Burkino Faso2 in Africa. [...] [\n] Regardless of the technology's capabilities, remote sensing data can be misinterpreted if not confirmed with ground observations, says Dwiyanti Kusumaningrum, a geographer at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Jakarta. [...]
@article{rochmyaningsihResearchGroupTakes2019,
  title = {Research Group Takes down Controversial {{Indonesia}} Fire Analysis},
  author = {Rochmyaningsih, Dyna},
  date = {2019-12-10},
  journaltitle = {Nature},
  doi = {10.1038/d41586-019-03771-2},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03771-2},
  urldate = {2019-12-11},
  abstract = {The government had criticized the claim that more than 1.6 million hectares were burnt this year.

[Excerpt] How much did Indonesia burn this year? An international research organization has taken down an online report that suggested fires burnt more than 1.6 million hectares of land in the country during 2019, 40\% more than the government's own calculations for the same period.

[\textbackslash n] The Indonesian government and local scientists had criticized the analysis, by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), saying that it relied on satellite data that hadn’t been confirmed with ground observations. [...] CIFOR, whose headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, published the analysis on 2 December based on time-series imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 Earth-observation satellites. [...] Before the meeting with the ministry, David Gaveau, a landscape ecologist at CIFOR in Bogor, told Nature that the differences in the data might stem from the different satellite imagery the two groups relied on. [...] A previous study that compared Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 images for mapping logging in the Brazilian Amazon1 found little difference between the accuracy of the two satellites, but other research showed that Sentinel-2 was 5\% more accurate at mapping land use in Burkino Faso2 in Africa. [...]

[\textbackslash n] Regardless of the technology's capabilities, remote sensing data can be misinterpreted if not confirmed with ground observations, says Dwiyanti Kusumaningrum, a geographer at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Jakarta. [...]},
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