GIS Unit - Vegetation mapping
Vegetation mapping employs remote sensing technology and methodologies, with ground truthing to delimit vegetation types. Accurate and updated vegetation maps are imperative for conservation planning and natural resource management.
We work on vegetation mapping in many parts of the world including Madagascar, Biak and Montserrat.
Mapping Harapan plants - towards restoring habitats
Biodiversity inventory and monitoring to conserve critically threatened lowland forest in Harapan, Sumatra.
Find out more about Kew's work in Harapan
Vegetation mapping in Geelvink Bay Papua, Indonesia
Building on the strong foundation of botanical exploration and collaboration in this region, this project is mapping the vegetation of the entire Geelvink Bay region in Papua, Indonesia
More on vegetation mapping in Geelvink Bay, Papua, Indonesia
Montserrat vegetation mapping
A vegetation map has been completed for the Caribbean island of Montserrat, that was devastated by a huge volcanic eruption in 1997.
More on vegetation mapping in Montserrat
Mount Oku and Ijim Ridge
Monitoring vegetation cover changes in Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge (Cameroon), using satellite and aerial sensor detection.
More on vegetation mapping in Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge
Madagascar vegetation mapping
Madagascar vegetation Mapping project, informing conservation and decision makers.
Other GIS related projects at Kew
- Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Atlantic Forests of Brazil
- Monitoring and Managing Biodiversity Loss in South-East Africa's Montane Ecosystems (project completed 2009)
- Itremo Massif Protected Area Project
- Turks and Caicos Islands Pine Recovery Programme
- Toucan Cipó
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Mapping the Harapan Rainforest - how we did it
by: Jenny Williams, GIS team blog 24 May 2012
Find out how Kew's GIS unit used remote sensing and field work to produce vegetation maps for the Harapan Rainforest Project.
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Launching the UKOTs Online Herbarium
by: Sara Barrios, UK Overseas Territories team blog 22 May 2012
We are bringing the unique and amazing plants that grow in the UKOTs, including those from the Caribbean, a little closer to you in celebration of International Day of Biological Diversity. Just a shame we can't bring the Caribbean weather too!
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Investigating the plants of the Caribbean... on the outskirts of London!
by: Andrew Budden, UK Overseas Territories team blog 15 May 2012
Andrew Budden, one of Kew's volunteer interns, describes how information from preserved specimens of Caribbean plants helps to assess the conservation status of plants native to the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories.
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World's smallest waterlily brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew
18 May 2010
Kew’s top propagation ‘code-breaker’, horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, has cracked the enigma of growing a rare species of African waterlily. The 'thermal’ lily (Nymphaea thermarum) is believed to be the smallest waterlily in the world, with pads that can be as little as 1 cm in diameter.
Director (CEO and Chief Scientist) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to return to Australia
14 Sep 2011
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew announced today that Director (CEO and Chief Scientist), Professor Stephen Hopper FLS will step down in autumn 2012 after six years in the job.
World's first night-flowering orchid is discovered
22 Nov 2011
Botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis have described the first night-flowering orchid known to science on the island of New Britain, near New Guinea.
