Relationship between Biomass and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index to Estimate Aboveground Carbon Stock in Patuha Mountain Area, West Java

Astrid Damayanti; Rizki Oktariza; Jarot Mulyo Semedi; Supriatna Supriatna

Universitas Indonesia Conferences, 2nd International Conference of Science and Applied Geography

Astrid Damayanti, Rizki Oktariza, Jarot Mulyo Semedi, Supriatna Supriatna

Last modified: 2022-11-27

Abstract

The issue of climate change has become asignificant threat to human life caused by increasedgreenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the rate of greenhouse gasemissions can be done by maintaining carbon stocks throughforest ecosystems. The Patuha Mountain area is an area with acomplex forest ecosystem in West Java. Therefore, it isessential to measure carbon stocks as an effort to maintaincarbon stock and forest sustainability. This study aims toestimate the value and mapping of carbon stocks in 2018 in thePatuha Mountain area using the Normalized DifferenceVegetation Index (NDVI) on Landsat-8 OLI images. Theestimation of aboveground carbon stock value obtained fromthe conversion of biomass values from the regression equationbetween the biomass field measurement and the NDVI value.Mapping of aboveground carbon stock areas is divided intothree classes, namely low, medium, and high. The study showsthat the value of total carbon stocks in Region Patuha is about4,903,746.44 C tons/ha and dominated by high-grade carbonstock for 60.60% of the total forest area.