Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid

The increaseness of development and agricultural activities will become a very significant contributor towards landslide and soil loss. The aim of this study is to analyse the landslide prediction and rate of soil loss as related to landuse changes in Perlis. The study area; Perlis is covered wit...

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Main Author: Rashid, Nur Syahira
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling uitm-224742018-12-18T06:53:40Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22474/ Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid Rashid, Nur Syahira Land use Landslides. Rockslides The increaseness of development and agricultural activities will become a very significant contributor towards landslide and soil loss. The aim of this study is to analyse the landslide prediction and rate of soil loss as related to landuse changes in Perlis. The study area; Perlis is covered with 77.4% agriculture, 18% of forest, 3.2% urbanization and 1.5% water bodies in 1999. However, during the year 2015; the agriculture area and forest decrease to 62% and 15% respectively. Meanwhile, urbanization increase to 19.5% and water bodies 2.03%. These two results fi-om image classification were then simulated using LandslideSim to evaluate potential area of landslide. Based on the evaluation indicates that no area in Perlis potential of landslide. However, the rate of soil loss in Perlis increase fi-om year 1999 to 2015. Where the higher rate of soil loss in Perlis in 1999 is 3.86% and increase to 4.76% in 2015. These show that landuse changes had gave a big impacts towards rate of soil loss. This statement is showed in correlation analysis between forest, agriculture, urbanization and water bodies with rate of soil loss. Forest and agriculture area have a strong negative correlation with soil loss which show high correlation value ( R 2 = 0.9905 (forest with rate of soil loss) and R^=0.9778 (agriculture with rate of soil loss). Meanwhile, urbanization and water bodies area have a strong positive correlation with soil loss which show high correlation value (R^= 0.9973 (urbanization with rate of soil loss and R^=0.9619 (water bodies with rate of soil loss). These result indicates that changes of land use especially when vegetation area decrease and urbanization area increase are linear with the soil loss in Perlis. 2018-12 Thesis NonPeerReviewed other en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22474/1/TD_NUR%20SYAHIRA%20RASHID%20AP%20R%2018.5.PDF Rashid, Nur Syahira (2018) Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi Mara Perlis.
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topic Land use
Landslides. Rockslides
spellingShingle Land use
Landslides. Rockslides
Rashid, Nur Syahira
Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
description The increaseness of development and agricultural activities will become a very significant contributor towards landslide and soil loss. The aim of this study is to analyse the landslide prediction and rate of soil loss as related to landuse changes in Perlis. The study area; Perlis is covered with 77.4% agriculture, 18% of forest, 3.2% urbanization and 1.5% water bodies in 1999. However, during the year 2015; the agriculture area and forest decrease to 62% and 15% respectively. Meanwhile, urbanization increase to 19.5% and water bodies 2.03%. These two results fi-om image classification were then simulated using LandslideSim to evaluate potential area of landslide. Based on the evaluation indicates that no area in Perlis potential of landslide. However, the rate of soil loss in Perlis increase fi-om year 1999 to 2015. Where the higher rate of soil loss in Perlis in 1999 is 3.86% and increase to 4.76% in 2015. These show that landuse changes had gave a big impacts towards rate of soil loss. This statement is showed in correlation analysis between forest, agriculture, urbanization and water bodies with rate of soil loss. Forest and agriculture area have a strong negative correlation with soil loss which show high correlation value ( R 2 = 0.9905 (forest with rate of soil loss) and R^=0.9778 (agriculture with rate of soil loss). Meanwhile, urbanization and water bodies area have a strong positive correlation with soil loss which show high correlation value (R^= 0.9973 (urbanization with rate of soil loss and R^=0.9619 (water bodies with rate of soil loss). These result indicates that changes of land use especially when vegetation area decrease and urbanization area increase are linear with the soil loss in Perlis.
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author Rashid, Nur Syahira
author_facet Rashid, Nur Syahira
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title Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
title_short Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
title_full Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
title_fullStr Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in Perlis / Nur Syahira Rashid
title_sort analysis of landslide prediction as related to landuse changes in perlis / nur syahira rashid
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22474/
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