Monitoring Illegal Logging Using Google Earth Engine in Sulawesi Selatan Tropical Forest, Indonesia

Forest destruction has been found to be the cause of natural disasters in form floods, landslides rainy season, droughts dry climate change, and global warming. The high rate forest is caused by various factors, including weak law enforcement efforts against forestry crimes, such as illegal logging events. However, Indonesia, only discovered when perpetrator distributed wood products. lack monitoring overall condition an impact on current level destruction. Through this research, problems related environmental damage due will described through remote sensing technology, which currently mainly developed basis artificial intelligence machine learning, namely Google Earth Engine (GEE). Monitoring events analysed using Sentinel 1 2 data. Obtaining satellite imagery with relatively small cloud cover for tropical regions, remarkably difficult. This difficulty presence a radar sensor images that can penetrate clouds, allowing observation even clouds. Using random classification algorithm GEE platform, data conditions 2021 were obtained, covering area 2,843,938.87 ha or 63% total Sulawesi Selatan Province. An analysis map function areas revealed area, 38.46% was non-forest estates 61.54% areas. continued identification also 1971 spots change vulnerable time first period (January–April) second (April–August), 1680 (April–August) third (September–December), revealing incident 7599.28 ha.