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Plate 5.7 Ma Da Upland Forest, Southern Viet Nam

Sensor / Mode: SPOT – XS (Bands 3-2-1)

Date: 5 March 1996

Scale: 1:100,000 (area coverage: 19 km x 22 km)

Nominal resolution: 20 m

Annotation and Feature Detection

For a full description of image and annotation points, see Section 3.1.4 of the report.

Regenerated forest, south of former Rang Rang airbase. Large standing trees are Invingia sp., which were resistant to herbicide application.

Barren herbicide-sprayed area north east of Rang Rang. Edge of uncultivated grasslands and regenerated forest is visible in the distance.



Radarsat imagery © Canadian Space Agency 1997