Monitoring land use and land use changes in French Guiana by optical remote sensing
Résumé
Thanks to the new SPOT/ENVISAT receiving station operated in Cayenne in the framework of the SEAS-Guyane project, a first global cloudless SPOT mosaic could be produced over French Guiana for the year 2006. This mosaic has been used to perform a first Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) inventory for the Kyoto protocol and to provide reference data for a GSE Forest Monitoring service based on SAR data. Almost 17,000 points were laid down on the SPOT mosaic with a stratified sampling design and photo-interpretated for 2006 and for 1990 on Landsat data. LUCC statistics for the 1990-2006 period were computed and integrated in a first voluntary Kyoto inventory.