Assessment of land cover change and desertification using remote sensing technology in a local region of Mongolia

DKI Jakarta is a center of government as well as economy and business of Indonesia, thus development projects in Jakarta continue every year. Therefore, monitoring for land use has to be improved in accordance to DKI Jakarta Spatial Planning. The attempt needs to be supported by continuous data availability regarding land cover condition in Jakarta. The aforementioned data collecting process become easier due to remote sensing technology development. Remote sensing technology can be utilized for analyzing the size of land use area by using classification analysis. It has been found that the level of accuracy depends on the type of classification method and number of training data. This research evaluated the level of overall accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) along with number of data training used in classifying Jakarta land cover in 2017. The results showed that in both methods, the variance of all the aforementioned criteria were getting smaller along with the increasing number of training data. QDA and SVM had similar performance based on overall accuracy and specificity. However, SVM was better than QDA on sensitivity.

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Time Series Analysis of Land Cover Using Remote Sensing Technology

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience ◽

10.1166/jctn.2020.8739 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 902-910

Author(s):

Ahmad Taufiq Hosni ◽

Suharto Teriman ◽

Nor Aizam Adnan ◽

Muhamad Asri Abdullah Kamar

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Land Cover ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Management Plan ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Lulc Changes ◽

Remote Sensing Technology ◽

Sensing Technology ◽

Development Area ◽

Landsat Satellite

The observation of land use/land cover (LULC) is essential as it allows humans to investigate the alteration of land which occurs over a period of time. This is to allow mankind to have a proper management of the earth resources and well planned development. One way to observe LULC is by using remote sensing technology since it provides continuous data monitoring of the earth’s surface. This study is carried out at Bandar Meru Raya, Ipoh, Perak and aimed to quantify the LULC changes, especially in urban areas which occurred within two decades from 1995 to 2005 and from 2005 to 2015. Maximum likelihood supervised classification was performed on three Landsat satellite imageries using ERDAS Imagine 2014 software. The images were classified into 4 general LULC categories namely forest, development area, green area, and water bodies. The results indicated that a considerable amount of forested area was decreasing by 183.12 hectares within the last 20 years while development area gained a total of 157.12 hectares. This LULC changes showed a serious loss of trees and this sort of change tends to affect the nature’s ecosystem. Therefore, by quantifying the loss of forest area will enable authorities to oversee and plan a better management of trees for future in urban environments. Such management plan is necessary in order to maintain the importance of trees towards nature and community.

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