Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques

Wetland is a part of natural ecosystem that provides many intangible services to human. However, many of these wetlands have been destroyed and converted to other land uses. Beaufort, Sabah, consists of an extensive wetland ecosystem. This wetland ecosystem lays pieces of pristine peat swamp forest...

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Main Author:	Kamlisa Uni Kamlun
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Language:	English English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	G70-70.6 Philosophy Relation to other topics Methodology
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spelling	my-ums-ep.103182024-04-15T07:16:02Z Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques 2009 Kamlisa Uni Kamlun G70-70.6 Philosophy. Relation to other topics. Methodology Wetland is a part of natural ecosystem that provides many intangible services to human. However, many of these wetlands have been destroyed and converted to other land uses. Beaufort, Sabah, consists of an extensive wetland ecosystem. This wetland ecosystem lays pieces of pristine peat swamp forest (PSF) that has been degraded due to human activities. This study aims at examining the dynamics of wetland vegetation changes in relation to anthropogenic activities in Beaufort area. Multitemporal satellite data of landsat MSS (June 29, 1985), Landsat TM (June 14, 1991), Landsat 7 ETM+ (November 2, 1999), Landsat 7 ETM+ (Jan 14, 2003) and SPOT4-HRVIR (March 26, 2003) were used in this study. A supervised classification approach was performed to classify satellite images into ten land cover types. The overall accuracies for all classifications are more than 89%. The result from the land cover classification shows a Significant changes to PSF, bareland and grassland cover type throughout the 18-year period. The PSF had drastically plummeted by about 70% from 1985 to 2003. The grassland had almost doubled from 1985 to 2003 and bareland also increased more than 100%. These changes were mainly due to fires occurred in 1998 and 2003 during El-Nino event. The El-Nino fires did not affect the mangrove. The dynamics change pattern analysis showed that the PSF area has severely degraded, leading to deforestation. The main dynamic pattern indicate that the PSF areas have changed to grassland and bareland from 1985 to 2003. Fragmentation analysis based on mean patch size and largest patch index provide the evidence that the PSF has undergone an increase of fragmentation between 1985 to March 2003. The mean nearest neighbour distance value has increased indicating that the patches of PSF have low connectivity and become more Isolated. Buffering and overlay analysis showed that agriculture was the main factor contributing to deforestation in Beaufort area. Questionnaire survey discovered that El-Nino fires in 1998 and 2003 was due to land clearing for plantation using slash and burn. In short, the PSF in Beaufort area has been decreasing at an alarming rate due to uncontrolled human activities. Therefore, the authorities such as Sabah Forestry Department are suggested to take action in controlling and managing the human activities for agriculture near the PSF especially during dry season. 2009 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10318/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10318/1/24%20PAGES.pdf text en public https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10318/2/FULLTEXT.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah Sekolah Perhutanan Tropika Antarabangsa
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spellingShingle	G70-70.6 Philosophy Relation to other topics Methodology Kamlisa Uni Kamlun Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
description	Wetland is a part of natural ecosystem that provides many intangible services to human. However, many of these wetlands have been destroyed and converted to other land uses. Beaufort, Sabah, consists of an extensive wetland ecosystem. This wetland ecosystem lays pieces of pristine peat swamp forest (PSF) that has been degraded due to human activities. This study aims at examining the dynamics of wetland vegetation changes in relation to anthropogenic activities in Beaufort area. Multitemporal satellite data of landsat MSS (June 29, 1985), Landsat TM (June 14, 1991), Landsat 7 ETM+ (November 2, 1999), Landsat 7 ETM+ (Jan 14, 2003) and SPOT4-HRVIR (March 26, 2003) were used in this study. A supervised classification approach was performed to classify satellite images into ten land cover types. The overall accuracies for all classifications are more than 89%. The result from the land cover classification shows a Significant changes to PSF, bareland and grassland cover type throughout the 18-year period. The PSF had drastically plummeted by about 70% from 1985 to 2003. The grassland had almost doubled from 1985 to 2003 and bareland also increased more than 100%. These changes were mainly due to fires occurred in 1998 and 2003 during El-Nino event. The El-Nino fires did not affect the mangrove. The dynamics change pattern analysis showed that the PSF area has severely degraded, leading to deforestation. The main dynamic pattern indicate that the PSF areas have changed to grassland and bareland from 1985 to 2003. Fragmentation analysis based on mean patch size and largest patch index provide the evidence that the PSF has undergone an increase of fragmentation between 1985 to March 2003. The mean nearest neighbour distance value has increased indicating that the patches of PSF have low connectivity and become more Isolated. Buffering and overlay analysis showed that agriculture was the main factor contributing to deforestation in Beaufort area. Questionnaire survey discovered that El-Nino fires in 1998 and 2003 was due to land clearing for plantation using slash and burn. In short, the PSF in Beaufort area has been decreasing at an alarming rate due to uncontrolled human activities. Therefore, the authorities such as Sabah Forestry Department are suggested to take action in controlling and managing the human activities for agriculture near the PSF especially during dry season.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Kamlisa Uni Kamlun
author_facet	Kamlisa Uni Kamlun
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title	Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
title_short	Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
title_full	Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
title_fullStr	Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
title_full_unstemmed	Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques
title_sort	wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in beaufort area, sabah using remote sensing and gis techniques
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
granting_department	Sekolah Perhutanan Tropika Antarabangsa
publishDate	2009
url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10318/1/24%20PAGES.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10318/2/FULLTEXT.pdf
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Wetland vegetation changes at a landscape scale in Beaufort area, Sabah using remote sensing and GIS techniques

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