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The Changes of Wetland Determination at Setiu River Basin by Using GIS<br />

and Remote Sensing<br />

Nurul Izzaty Ilmi bt Rozman<br />

Supervisor: Dr. Razak bin Zakariya<br />

Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)<br />

School of marine and environmental sciences<br />

Wetland is a one of land cover analysis which is play important role nowadays. Land<br />

cover classification is one of the primary objectives in the analysis of remote sensing<br />

data. Wetland is changing due to natural and anthropogenic impact. However,<br />

anthropogenic impact on wetland rapidly increasing due to increases in human<br />

activities. The result from this study shows an increase and decrease of wetland cover<br />

in Setiu river basin. The largest area of land cover in this project is forest which is<br />

37.08% for year 2006 and 36.95% in year 2015. These changes is influence by human<br />

activities that growth among the local community also by the government. Based on<br />

the result, oil palm area increase from year 2006 to 2015 due to high market price<br />

and it affect the forest area which were degrade for these activity. Mangrove and<br />

gelam area also undergo declination due to cleared of these area other benefits for<br />

instance for agriculture, oil palm plantations, livestock farming and shrimp aquaculture<br />

ponds.<br />

1912 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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