TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lavers, Chris R.
AU  - Mason, Travis
AU  - Mazower, Jonathan
AU  - Grig, Sarah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/09
TI  - Normalized Difference Vegetative Index-related Assessment for Climate Change Impact on Indigenous Communities from High Resolution IKONOS Satellite Imagery in West Papua
JO  - Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
SP  - 018
VL  - 02
IS  - 03
AB  - High-resolution satellite imagery permits acquisition of critical data to observe climate-change and environmental impact on conflict-impacted indigenous communities with co-existing socio-economic factors, often within unstable regimes. Conflict may prevent direct access in remote regions to validate civilian conflict actor evidence. In such cases use of remote sensing tools, techniques, and data are extremely important. Software-based imagery assessment can quantify radiometrically calibrated or Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and provide temporal changes with rapid detection over large search areas. In this work we evaluate recent trends in equatorial alpine glacier ablation to address the probability of indigenous water scarcity, as pure glacial water reserves are depleted near the Grasberg gold and copper mine in the Carstenz region, Western part of Papua Island, North of Oceania.
SN  - 2766-6190
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2103018
DO  - 10.21926/aeer.2103018
ID  - Lavers2021
ER  -