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Changes of Oil Palm Plantations at Setiu River Basin from GIS and
Remote Sensing Technology
Norhafizah bt Abd Rahim
Supervisor: Dr. Razak Zakariya
Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)
School of Marine and Environmental Science
The Setiu River Basin area was located at the North of Kuala Terengganu with total
area approximately 23,000 hectares. A period of ten years has caused big differences
in the land cover composition. This study is to create land cover map of year 2006
and year 2015 by using remotely sensed data and to detect the qualitative and
quantitative changes rate of land cover and oil palm plantation in ten years interval.
The result shows a rise and reduce of land cover in the Setiu River Basin area. The
largest area of land cover is forest that is 37.08% ha for year 2006 and 36.95% ha
for year 2015. Based on the result, oil palm area increase from year 2006 to 2015
because of high market value and it affect the forest area that were degrade. These
changes is influence by human activities among the local people and the government.
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