Study of Land-use Change Monitoring in the Rawa Sei Seluang Irrigation Area and Belawang Irrigation Area, Barito Kuala Regency, South Kalimantan Province

Abstract

Food security is a basic need of each country including Indonesia, whose population is increasing rapidly is not proportional to the growth in productivity of agricultural land, especially paddy fields. Swamp Irrigation Area (DIR) which was originally designed for a rice field block area program in the early opening of transmigration land outside Java, especially in the area of Barito Kuala District, South Kalimantan Province, in fact, has now turned into rubber plantations and oil palm plantations, both managed by the community or company. The study of monitoring land-use change is very important in relation to food security programs, where the change of function or land-use changes is currently developing very rapidly in line with the level of needs and population growth. Therefore, the study of monitoring land-use change needs to be carried out as a-monitoring and also to find out in land-use change. The rice field in Sei Seluang DIR has 37.72 % from 3,297 ha the total area and rice filed in Belawang DIR have 7.45 % from 5,257 ha the total area. Satellite imagery as a monitoring tool or land-use monitoring study is very suitable because in addition to covering a fairly large area, information detail both in terms of pixel resolution and temporal resolution are now getting better in line with technological advancements, including advances in digital image processing software.