Oil palm is recognized as the golden crop. It produces the highest oil yield among oil seed crops. Malaysia, as the world's second largest producer of palm oil, has 16 % of its lands planted with oil palms. Multisensor remote sensing plays an important role by providing relevant, timely and accurate information that can be developed into a plantation monitoring system to optimize production and sustainability. Synthetic aperture radar sensors deliver ‘cloud-free’ images. Optical remote sensing provides important physical parameters of the plantation using multispectral data acquisition. Both types of data are complementary and need to be exploited simultaneously to obtain a holistic view on the plantation. The research described in this paper anticipates the development of a multisensor image and data fusion system for oil palm plantation management.
['Christine Pohl', 'Kasturi Devi Kanniah', 'Chong Khai Loong']
Monitoring oil palm plantations in Malaysia