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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2015 | Volume: 15 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 689-695
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2015.689.695
CA-Markov for Predicting Land Use Changes in Tropical Catchment Area: A Case Study in Cameron Highland, Malaysia
Muhammad Rendana, Sahibin Abdul Rahim, Wan Mohd Razi Idris, Tukimat Lihan and Zulfahmi Ali Rahman

Abstract: The land use/land cover pattern of a region is an outcome of natural and socio-economic factors and the utilization by humans in time and space. The land use/cover change analysis is used to evaluate and monitor land use change in the specific period of time. Nowadays, the rapid changes of land use and land cover can lead to land degradation and environmental problems by anthropogenic activities like agriculture development, deforestation, urbanization and tourism. The study is conducted in Cameron Highland which is the agriculture and recreational area situated in Pahang, Malaysia. It aims to analyze land use change and make the prediction of future land use scenario in this region. In order to detect and evaluate land use changes, supervised classification and image differencing method are applied. Then, Cellular Automata and Markov Chain analysis is employed predict of future land use in study area. The output of study reveals that land use change in study area has changed about 18.95% in 1997-2014 and estimated to change about a further 3.66% in 2014-2020. Additionally, it predicted that open water, mixed agriculture, open land and built up areas will increase by 80.37 (0.54%), 501.02 (12.24%), 499.95 (5.47%) and 119.88 ha (0.85%) in 2020.

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Muhammad Rendana, Sahibin Abdul Rahim, Wan Mohd Razi Idris, Tukimat Lihan and Zulfahmi Ali Rahman, 2015. CA-Markov for Predicting Land Use Changes in Tropical Catchment Area: A Case Study in Cameron Highland, Malaysia. Journal of Applied Sciences, 15: 689-695.

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