Abstract
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
DOI
10.21926/aeer.2103018
Publication Date
2021-07-09
Publication Title
Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
Volume
2
Issue
3
Publisher
Lidsen
ISSN
2766-6190
Embargo Period
2024-11-22
Recommended Citation
Lavers, C., Mason, T., & Mazower, J. (2021) 'Normalized Difference Vegetative Index-related Assessment for Climate Change Impact on Indigenous Communities from High Resolution IKONOS Satellite Imagery in West Papua', Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research, 2(3). Lidsen: Available at: https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2103018
