Implementasi SIG Untuk Monitoring Kesehatan Lingkungan Studi Kasus Kelurahan Harapan Baru
Environmental health is an important factor in improving the health and well-being of human life and to prevent the dangers of disease. Environmental monitoring and engineering efforts need to be undertaken to meet these objectives. Harapan Baru Village is one of the villages in the Loa Janan Ilir District, Samarinda City, East Kalimantan Province. Harapan Baru Village is a fairly dense area. According to BPS data, Kota Samarinda in 2017 has a density of 4,304.34 inhabitants per km2. This kelurahan has problems in monitoring environmental health. Geographical information system (GIS) technology is currently developing rapidly. GIS can provide a monitoring model solution in environmental health countermeasures from a preventive side. For this reason, a study was conducted on environmental health monitoring in the Harapan Baru Village area using a web-based geographic information system. The method used to carry out the monitoring process is to use geographic information system tools, especially its spatial clustering analysis capabilities. The results showed that the GIS application of Environmental Health Monitoring in Harapan Baru was able to provide strong and up-to-date information about the environmental health conditions of residents. In particular, the system's ability to perform spatial queries by combining spatial and non-spatial attributes.