Studi Cadangan Karbon Vegetasi Mangrove Dalam Taman Nasional Rawa Aopa Watumohai Sulawesi Tenggara

Abstrak

Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park (RAWNP) in Southeast Sulawesi is one of the important national assets as a place to live and develop various endemic species of flora and fauna of Sulawesi in its various land coverings. Besides its biological functions, RAWNP also has other important functions, namely the ecological function related to its ability to store carbon, especially in the mangrove cover. This study aims to determine the distribution of mangrove carbon in the RAWNP. Today, remote sensing technology is one technique that suitable for carbon mapping. Determination of the mangrove distribution is carried out using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index analysi to calculate the class area of vegetation density while allometric analysis is conducted to calculate biomass and carbon stocks. The result showed that multitemporal Landsat imagery had advantages for mapping the distribution of mangrove carbon using the NDVI technique. The NDVI value between 0.2 to more than 0.6 indicated the carbon value between 36-146 tons of carbon/hectare. Keywords: Biomass, Multispectral Image, Carbon, Mangrove, NDVI.