Aplikasi WebGIS untuk Pemantauan Perubahan Tutupan Lahan

Abstract

Indonesia is home to the world’s third largest tropical forest, it’s unfortunate that forest in Indonesia has been reported as the highest deforestation. Agriculture and plantation activities considered as one of factors that cause deforestation. This research focus on monitoring of 5 Commodities (cacao, coffee, oil palm, rubber and paddy) as a factor that causes forest loss in Indonesia. Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) is state of the art tools widely used for the monitoring land use change. Development of WebGIS on this research designed to be user friendly, up to date and can be easily integrated with other GIS system. The government, stakeholders and public users can monitor deforestation that caused by agriculture activities each of region in Indonesia quickly, furthermore help policy makers in provide more appropriate regulations on land use management. From the secondary data that has been analyzed, the result show that Indonesia has forest lost 12.3 million hectares from 2000 to 2018, of which an estimated 4.1 million hectares become plantations and agricultural areas. This means, about 33.5% of those 5 commodities activities have an impact on forest loss, and the remaining around 8.2 million hectares caused by other factors.