Report for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) - UMS

8.4. Soil data
Accordant to BAKOSURTANAL a digital soil map of Indonesia will be available at the
Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia (http://www.deptan.go.id/index1.php). However,
the forest inventories of BAPLAN also contain some soil data. For Malaysia possible sources
are the NASA (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_BANd0091_113.html) or the
International Plant Nutrition Institute IPNI which provides a soil classification for Malaysia
under the USDA system as to be seen in the annex (http://www.ipni.net). Also the Malaysian
Society of Soil Science MSSS (http://www.e-msss.com) could provide assistance in finding
addition data.
Surin Suksuwan WWF considers that maps from Malaysia are easy accessible for Sabah but
difficult for Sarawak. For a digital soil map possibly the Department of Agriculture, Malaysia
is responsible which provides soil management and conservation services (www.doa.gov.my).
Some general information are available in Potts et al. 2003.
Experts on Soil within the project partners are Normah Awang Besar at SITF and the Soil
Forest Laboratory at UnMul as well as Syahrinudin from the Soil Sciences and Forest
Nutrition Department, Forestry Faculty – UnMul. TNC recommended to contact a student
from Utrecht who is working on soil (Harmens Smith).
Two measuring towers (60 m and 30 m height) and soil microclimate (soil water, soil
temperature) but program stopped, measurement data are available 2001 to 2005.
Established research cooperation with Waseda University on carbon flux has successfully
measured in various secondary vegetation (Alang alang grassland, peper aduncum,
macaranga association and other fast growing plantation in 2003) (Minutes of 4th of
November).
8.5. Remotely and proximal sensed satellite data
The remote sensed data for the most part belong to the sections mentioned above but are
listed here for synopsis.
8.5.1. Satellite images
BAKOSURTANANL recommends for future works to use SRTM-Data with resolution of 30
meters from NASA/ USGDS and LDR (Germany) (maybe they are free because of research
purpose). A lot of data exist already at BAKOSURTANAL which are scattered over entire
Indonesia. They have spatial data for whole Indonesia while hyperspectral data shall be
acquired in the coming years. Mulyanto prefers the land-system-approach for climate change
study which classifies areas by same geomorphological properties as soil or climate (for
example: one land-system-unit could be covered by primary forest as well as by plantations).
A land-system-map of Kalimantan is just finished. Biomass is mapped only for small areas so
far by BAKOSURTANAL. To Mulyantos knowledge it is possible to “look” into the peat up to
three meters depth which opens a way to estimate biomass through volume. Maybe it is
feasible to estimate the belowground biomass by other technique. Tab. 3 shows the digital
maps available at BAKOSURTANAL. More data are accessible at http://www.bakosurtanal-
.go.id go to layanan public (public service) and indeks produk.
BAPLAN uses Landsat images (7 ETM+) of 2000, 2003, 2006 (and 2009) by a visual
classification. Some maps are available at the homepage at “Peta Tematik Kehutan” (in
Indonesian). An exchange of information is possible through a co-operation with the Ministry/
Department (in order to avoid overlap activities concerning with climate change issue). The
partners have to talk to Mr. Hermawan Indrabudi, Director of Forest Inventory & Mapping
Center. The data of LAPAN origin from NOAA, LandSat, SPOT-2 and SPOT-4, Terra/Aqua
MODIS, ALOS (mostly). It is possible to share these data with the Hamburg group or SITF.
For that purpose Dr. Orbita Roswintiarti provided a list of available images (Tab. 1). In
general LAPAN is interested in a co-operation especially with University of Hamburg and
SITF/MGFEP.
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