Abstract
Land-use Assessment and its Influence on Spatial Distribution of Rainfall Erosivity: Case Study of Cameron Highlands Malaysia
Highlights
Land-use is an important component with socioeconomic and cultural values for the sustenance of biodiversity and ecosystem activities
Two basic components of this research are development and the analysis of LULC and erosivity maps for Cameron Highlands. The former was developed from the Landsat data retrieved from the archive of United States Geological Survey (USGS) website while the latter were from the rainfall record obtained from Malaysia Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID)
This study developed and evaluated the decadal LULC changes and rainfall erosivity maps for the period of three decades, starting from the years 1986 to 2016
Summary
Land-use is an important component with socioeconomic and cultural values for the sustenance of biodiversity and ecosystem activities. Land-covers are the observed biophysical covers on the earth’s surface (Di Gregorio, 2005) and the socio-economic interpretation of the activities taking place on land is the land-use of such locality (Straume, 2014). Both land-use and land-cover are often used interchangeably in several environmental studies. IPCC (2000) recognized land-use as an important component of global change It was reported as an important factor in determining the climate of a region through both biophysical and biogeochemical processes (Cegielska et al, 2018)
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