Monitoring Of Land Cover Changes in Mine Environment

Abstract

Land cover detection change is significant for planning and managing an area. The condition of an area should be analyzed to observe human activities that influence environment and thus it is important to simulate land cover changes. Land cover can be effectively monitored by remote sensing technique and GIS using multi-temporal satellite images. Multi-temporal satellite images analysis will be helpful to conceive the sequence patterns of land cover change and to detect the trend of changes. Supervised classification is applied to classify land cover type and calculate the changes of coverage area. Mining is one of human activity which its process causes land cover change. This study is intended to analyze the land cover change in Bangka Tengah due to mining activities. Landsat time series are used in this research during 18 years period (Landsat acquisitions are 1997, 2000 and 2015). Site area of this research is in Batu Belubang, Tanah Merah, Kedimpel and Tanjung Gunung. Field study shows change of land cover from vegetation cover into tin mining area and its post tin mining activity such as tailing area and an artificial lake known as kolong. Keywords— Land Coverage Changes, Tin Mining, GIS, Remote Sensing