Forest monitoring in the case of Vietnam

Abstract

This paper introduces forest monitoring and remote sensing (RS) utilization in the case of Vietnam. Vietnam has two forest monitoring schemes including annual field based monitoring and RS and systematic sampling method in every five years. In order to improve the accuracy and quality of the monitoring data, the utilization of tablet-PC with forest monitoring mobile application has started and expanded. Additionally, the trial of Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) based on satellite images has been implemented. It is expected to use more RS technologies with the combination of developing RS tools including SAR and drones.