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Project Leader	Prof. Sharifah Mastura Syed ABDULLAH Earth Observation Centre Department of Geography Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi MALAYSIA Tel: +60-3-8921-3679 Fax: +60-3-8921-3334 Email: sharifah@eoc.ukm.my
Funding	US $31,500
Participating countries	Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

Introduction/Background
The project Land Use and Land Cover Change For Southeast Asia was proposed for a two-year term. For year one the project reference was APN 2000-13, and for year two the project reference was APN 2001-13. In year one the project had accomplished four activities. These were the installation of hardware and software in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam; acquisition of satellite data; training LUCC methodologies; and advance-training workshop on ETM+, SPOT VGT and LTM models. The project draft country reports have also being coordinated and compiled. Year two saw the implementation of the final part of the project, which was the post workshop and synthesis report for LUCC-SEA. The workshop was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 9-14 August 2001. This workshop produced the final summary and synthesis of LUCC for the region.

Outline of activities conducted
The post workshop and synthesis meeting was divided into three sets of activities as follows:

1) Science Papers. Session 1
The papers presented were:
   i) Large-Area, Rapid Assessments of Forest Cover Using Landset ETM+ Data: Myanmar 1999/2000. MSU, SEARRIN-US;
   ii) Integration of GIS and Statistical Analysis for Forest Cover Change Modeling of the Upper Magat Watershed. NAMRIA SEARRIN-Philippines; and
   iii) Networking, Open Geographic Information Systems at the Tropical Rainforest Information Centre. MSU, SEARRIN-USA.

2) Science Papers. Session 2
The papers presented were:
   i) Tam Dao National Park: Policy Implication and Forest Re-growth. National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecast, SEARRIN-Vietnam;
   ii) Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. Ministry of Environment, SEARRIN-Cambodia;
   iii) Land Use and Land Cover Change in Nam Theun Watershed, Laos PDR. National University of Laos, SEARRIN-Laos;
   iv) Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Sempadi Forest Reserve, Sarawak, Malaysia. UKM, SEARRIN-Malaysia;
   v) Spatial Analysis of Forest Cover Change in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. NAMRIA, SEARRIN-Philippines; and
   vi) Land Use and Land Cover Change in Thailand: Five Sites. GISTDA, SEARRIN-Thailand.

3) Field Validation Training: Fractional Cover Field Data Collection for Validation/Calibration. The study site was at Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Field data collection included: 

4) Synthesis writing and technical product development. The synthesis will produce a regional report for Southeast Asia. It outlines the summaries and synthesis of the seven country findings. The content includes:

Outcomes/Products
The outcomes of the LUCC-SEA project:

Future Direction/Follow-up work
Research results and experience from this APN project will provide a foundation for SEARRIN researchers to pursue future projects in Global Change Research. One such project is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The assessment will be based on tropical forest ecosystems and land use change processes. The assessment will provide an evaluation of the drivers of ecosystem change, including recent and future projected trends and how these trends will influence current and future ability to sustain ecosystem services.

Anther future direction of the research is targeted at forest fires and detecting and classifying burned forests. The research will support the development of methodologies to characterize the regional spatial pattern of forest fire occurrence in SEA by combining climatic and biophysical parameters with the human dimensions of land use.