Estimating primary productivity of tropical oil palm in Malaysia using remote sensing technique and ancillary data

K. D. Kanniah; K. P. Tan; A. P. Cracknell

doi:10.1117/12.2067012

21 October 2014 Estimating primary productivity of tropical oil palm in Malaysia using remote sensing technique and ancillary data

K. D. Kanniah, K. P. Tan, A. P. Cracknell

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Proceedings Volume 9239, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI; 92391K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067012
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The amount of carbon sequestration by vegetation can be estimated using vegetation productivity. At present, there is a knowledge gap in oil palm net primary productivity (NPP) at a regional scale. Therefore, in this study NPP of oil palm trees in Peninsular Malaysia was estimated using remote sensing based light use efficiency (LUE) model with inputs from local meteorological data, upscaled leaf area index/fractional photosynthetically active radiation (LAI/fPAR) derived using UK-DMC 2 satellite data and a constant maximum LUE value from the literature. NPP values estimated from the model was then compared and validated with NPP estimated using allometric equations developed by Corley and Tinker (2003), Henson (2003) and Syahrinudin (2005) with diameter at breast height, age and the height of the oil palm trees collected from three estates in Peninsular Malaysia. Results of this study show that oil palm NPP derived using a light use efficiency model increases with respect to the age of oil palm trees, and it stabilises after ten years old. The mean value of oil palm NPP at 118 plots as derived using the LUE model is 968.72 g C m^-2 year^-1 and this is 188% - 273% higher than the NPP derived from the allometric equations. The estimated oil palm NPP of young oil palm trees is lower compared to mature oil palm trees (<10 years old), as young oil palm trees contribute to lower oil palm LAI and therefore fPAR, which is an important variable in the LUE model. In contrast, it is noted that oil palm NPP decreases with respect to the age of oil palm trees as estimated using the allomeric equations. It was found in this study that LUE models could not capture NPP variation of oil palm trees if LAI/fPAR is used. On the other hand, tree height and DBH are found to be important variables that can capture changes in oil palm NPP as a function of age.

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K. D. Kanniah, K. P. Tan, and A. P. Cracknell "Estimating primary productivity of tropical oil palm in Malaysia using remote sensing technique and ancillary data", Proc. SPIE 9239, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI, 92391K (21 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067012

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