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A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing

Sustainable oil palm production is a key issue in global biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. As one of the world’s major vegetable oil crops, oil palm has expanded exponentially to meet increased demand over the past decades. However, previous monitoring and assessments of oil pal...

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Main Authors: Yu, Le, Cao, Yue, Cheng, Yuqi, Zhao, Qiang, Xu, Yidi, Kanniah, Kasturi, Lu, Hui, Yang, Rui, Gong, Peng
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Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2023
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G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/106671/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2022.2063701
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spelling my.utm.1066712024-07-14T09:37:23Z http://eprints.utm.my/106671/ A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing Yu, Le Cao, Yue Cheng, Yuqi Zhao, Qiang Xu, Yidi Kanniah, Kasturi Lu, Hui Yang, Rui Gong, Peng G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing Sustainable oil palm production is a key issue in global biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. As one of the world’s major vegetable oil crops, oil palm has expanded exponentially to meet increased demand over the past decades. However, previous monitoring and assessments of oil palm plantations were hampered because of the lack of high-resolution annual maps at the global scale. We produced annual oil palm plantation maps in 4 major producer countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Papua New Guinea) in Asia-Pacific from 2007 to 2018 at 100-m resolution using advanced remote sensing techniques with Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. We uncover the global patterns of oil palm expansion and find that global oil palm expansion has a very high degree of potential conflict with local biodiversity. Globally, 99.9% of oil palm plantations overlapped with Conservation Priority Zones (CPZs) and oil palm plantations encroached on 231 protected areas. We suggest to incorporate the related issues into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2023 Article PeerReviewed Yu, Le and Cao, Yue and Cheng, Yuqi and Zhao, Qiang and Xu, Yidi and Kanniah, Kasturi and Lu, Hui and Yang, Rui and Gong, Peng (2023) A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing Letters, 14 (6). pp. 654-668. ISSN 2150-704X http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2022.2063701 DOI:10.1080/2150704X.2022.2063701
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topic G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
spellingShingle G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
Yu, Le
Cao, Yue
Cheng, Yuqi
Zhao, Qiang
Xu, Yidi
Kanniah, Kasturi
Lu, Hui
Yang, Rui
Gong, Peng
A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
description Sustainable oil palm production is a key issue in global biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. As one of the world’s major vegetable oil crops, oil palm has expanded exponentially to meet increased demand over the past decades. However, previous monitoring and assessments of oil palm plantations were hampered because of the lack of high-resolution annual maps at the global scale. We produced annual oil palm plantation maps in 4 major producer countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Papua New Guinea) in Asia-Pacific from 2007 to 2018 at 100-m resolution using advanced remote sensing techniques with Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. We uncover the global patterns of oil palm expansion and find that global oil palm expansion has a very high degree of potential conflict with local biodiversity. Globally, 99.9% of oil palm plantations overlapped with Conservation Priority Zones (CPZs) and oil palm plantations encroached on 231 protected areas. We suggest to incorporate the related issues into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
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author Yu, Le
Cao, Yue
Cheng, Yuqi
Zhao, Qiang
Xu, Yidi
Kanniah, Kasturi
Lu, Hui
Yang, Rui
Gong, Peng
author_facet Yu, Le
Cao, Yue
Cheng, Yuqi
Zhao, Qiang
Xu, Yidi
Kanniah, Kasturi
Lu, Hui
Yang, Rui
Gong, Peng
author_sort Yu, Le
title A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
title_short A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
title_full A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
title_fullStr A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
title_full_unstemmed A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
title_sort study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing
publisher Taylor and Francis Ltd.
publishDate 2023
url http://eprints.utm.my/106671/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2022.2063701
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