Land cover changes of Kuala Terengganu district using landsat TM images

Abstract

Land cover mapping is very important in identifying the land cover classes of a study area to determine the distribution of each class, in order to conserve and manage the biodiversity that lie beneath them. Therefore, this study aims to map land cover classes in Kuala Terengganu district and further determine the changes rate occurred. The study area covered approximately 4690.656 hectares of Kuala Terengganu. Three Landsat TM images, which dated on 15th October 1998, 14th July 2002 and 15th August 2005, were used in digital image processing by using band combinations of 4, 5, 2. Overall classification accuracy are 74.55 percent for 1998, 82.42 percent (2002) and 90.91 percent (2005).