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GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia

Land suitability evaluation (LSE) is a valuable tool for land use planning in major countries of the world, including Malaysia. Previous LSE studies focused mostly on the use of biophysical and ecological datasets for the design of equally important socio–economic variables. This study presents sub...

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Main Authors: Ahmed, Goma Bedawi, Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid, Idrees, Mohammed Oludare, Balasundram, Siva Kumar, Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri
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Published: Research India Publications 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61964/1/GIS-based%20land%20suitability%20mapping%20for%20rubber%20cultivation%20in%20Seremban%2C%20Malaysia.pdf
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spelling oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:61964 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61964/ GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia Ahmed, Goma Bedawi Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid Idrees, Mohammed Oludare Balasundram, Siva Kumar Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri Land suitability evaluation (LSE) is a valuable tool for land use planning in major countries of the world, including Malaysia. Previous LSE studies focused mostly on the use of biophysical and ecological datasets for the design of equally important socio–economic variables. This study presents sub national level estimation of suitable agricultural lands for Rubber crops in Seremban, Malaysia, combining physical, biophysical and ecological variables. The objective of the study was to provide an up–to-date GIS-based agricultural land suitability evaluation (ALSE) for determining suitable agricultural land for Rubber crops in the study area. Biophysical and ecological factors that influence agricultural land use were assembled and the weights of their respective contributions were assessed using analytic hierarchical process. For Rubber cultivation, Lenggeng, Pantai and Setul are the most suitable; while Ampangan, Seremban, Rasah, and Rantau are moderately suitable. Since Seremban, Labu, and Pantai are not suitable for growing rubber. The total suitable land for rubber cultivation in Seremban district is 35575 hectares distributed among the classes as: 16048 hectares is highly suitable, 15399 hectares moderately suitable and 4128 hectares is marginally suitable. These values represent 45%, 43% and 12% respectively Quantitative assessment of the model’s detection accuracy reveals to what extent it is sensitive to suitable and non-suitable land with sensitivity and specificity values of 84.14% and 76% respectively and overall accuracy (area under the ROC curve) of 0.80 (80%) with p-value of <0.0001 at 95% confidence interval. Research India Publications 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61964/1/GIS-based%20land%20suitability%20mapping%20for%20rubber%20cultivation%20in%20Seremban%2C%20Malaysia.pdf Ahmed, Goma Bedawi and Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid and Idrees, Mohammed Oludare and Balasundram, Siva Kumar and Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri (2017) GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 12 (20). 9420 - 9433. ISSN 0973-4562; ESSN: 1087-1090 https://www.ripublication.com/Volume/ijaerv12n20.htm
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description Land suitability evaluation (LSE) is a valuable tool for land use planning in major countries of the world, including Malaysia. Previous LSE studies focused mostly on the use of biophysical and ecological datasets for the design of equally important socio–economic variables. This study presents sub national level estimation of suitable agricultural lands for Rubber crops in Seremban, Malaysia, combining physical, biophysical and ecological variables. The objective of the study was to provide an up–to-date GIS-based agricultural land suitability evaluation (ALSE) for determining suitable agricultural land for Rubber crops in the study area. Biophysical and ecological factors that influence agricultural land use were assembled and the weights of their respective contributions were assessed using analytic hierarchical process. For Rubber cultivation, Lenggeng, Pantai and Setul are the most suitable; while Ampangan, Seremban, Rasah, and Rantau are moderately suitable. Since Seremban, Labu, and Pantai are not suitable for growing rubber. The total suitable land for rubber cultivation in Seremban district is 35575 hectares distributed among the classes as: 16048 hectares is highly suitable, 15399 hectares moderately suitable and 4128 hectares is marginally suitable. These values represent 45%, 43% and 12% respectively Quantitative assessment of the model’s detection accuracy reveals to what extent it is sensitive to suitable and non-suitable land with sensitivity and specificity values of 84.14% and 76% respectively and overall accuracy (area under the ROC curve) of 0.80 (80%) with p-value of <0.0001 at 95% confidence interval.
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author Ahmed, Goma Bedawi
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Idrees, Mohammed Oludare
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri
spellingShingle Ahmed, Goma Bedawi
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Idrees, Mohammed Oludare
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri
GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
author_facet Ahmed, Goma Bedawi
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Idrees, Mohammed Oludare
Balasundram, Siva Kumar
Abdullah, Ahmad Fikri
author_sort Ahmed, Goma Bedawi
title GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
title_short GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
title_full GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
title_fullStr GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed GIS-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in Seremban, Malaysia
title_sort gis-based land suitability mapping for rubber cultivation in seremban, malaysia
publisher Research India Publications
publishDate 2017
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61964/1/GIS-based%20land%20suitability%20mapping%20for%20rubber%20cultivation%20in%20Seremban%2C%20Malaysia.pdf
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