A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia

In Malaysia, areas under oil palm plantations have increased dramatically since the early twentieth century and have resulted in multiple conversions of land change. This paper presents a spatial and temporal model for simulation of oil palm expansion in the Kuala Langat district, Malaysia. The mode...

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Main Authors: Nourqolipour, Ramin, Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid, Balasundram, Siva Kumar, Ahmad, Noordin, Sood, Alias M., Buyong, Taher, Amiri, Fazel
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Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2015
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author Nourqolipour, Ramin
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Ahmad, Noordin
Sood, Alias M.
Buyong, Taher
Amiri, Fazel
author_facet Nourqolipour, Ramin
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Ahmad, Noordin
Sood, Alias M.
Buyong, Taher
Amiri, Fazel
author_sort Nourqolipour, Ramin
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description In Malaysia, areas under oil palm plantations have increased dramatically since the early twentieth century and have resulted in multiple conversions of land change. This paper presents a spatial and temporal model for simulation of oil palm expansion in the Kuala Langat district, Malaysia. The model is an integration of cellular automata (CA), multi-criteria evaluation (MCE), and Markov chain (MC) analysis while MCE provides transition rules of CA iterations and MC analysis assigns a transition probability to each single pixel at the time steps. Evaluation criteria consist of constraints and nine suitability factors indicating environmental and socio-economic issues of oil palm development. In the first simulation, changes of six land-cover classes were projected to the year 2008 based on transitions between 1997 and 2002. Two measures of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement were adopted to validate model outcome. The simulation of land-cover change of the year 2020 was done based on the transition observed between 1997 and 2002 regarding the satisfactory agreement of the projection and the reference data at the first simulation. The results, based on five landscape metrics, indicated continuous spatial patterns of oil palm plantations but more fragmented spatial patterns of other land classes by the year 2020.
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spelling upm-434992016-06-28T08:32:20Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43499/ A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia Nourqolipour, Ramin Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid Balasundram, Siva Kumar Ahmad, Noordin Sood, Alias M. Buyong, Taher Amiri, Fazel In Malaysia, areas under oil palm plantations have increased dramatically since the early twentieth century and have resulted in multiple conversions of land change. This paper presents a spatial and temporal model for simulation of oil palm expansion in the Kuala Langat district, Malaysia. The model is an integration of cellular automata (CA), multi-criteria evaluation (MCE), and Markov chain (MC) analysis while MCE provides transition rules of CA iterations and MC analysis assigns a transition probability to each single pixel at the time steps. Evaluation criteria consist of constraints and nine suitability factors indicating environmental and socio-economic issues of oil palm development. In the first simulation, changes of six land-cover classes were projected to the year 2008 based on transitions between 1997 and 2002. Two measures of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement were adopted to validate model outcome. The simulation of land-cover change of the year 2020 was done based on the transition observed between 1997 and 2002 regarding the satisfactory agreement of the projection and the reference data at the first simulation. The results, based on five landscape metrics, indicated continuous spatial patterns of oil palm plantations but more fragmented spatial patterns of other land classes by the year 2020. Springer Verlag 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43499/1/abstract00.pdf Nourqolipour, Ramin and Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid and Balasundram, Siva Kumar and Ahmad, Noordin and Sood, Alias M. and Buyong, Taher and Amiri, Fazel (2015) A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73 (4). pp. 1687-1700. ISSN 1866-6280; ESSN: 1866-6299 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12665-014-3521-1 10.1007/s12665-014-3521-1
spellingShingle Nourqolipour, Ramin
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Ahmad, Noordin
Sood, Alias M.
Buyong, Taher
Amiri, Fazel
A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title_full A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title_fullStr A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title_short A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
title_sort gis-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in kuala langat district, malaysia
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