Analisis Perubahan Tutupan Lahan Kota Medan Periode 2000 - 2011

Abstract

MONNICA LESTARY ZALUKHU: Analysis of Land Cover Change in Medan City for 2000- 2011 Period. Supervised by RAHMAWATY and ABDUL RAUF. Land cover change is affected by land use dynamically. The purpose of the research was to know land cover change in Medan city for period 2000- 2011 with Gheographic Information System (GIS) and to know the dominant factor of land cover change in Medan city with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The research result showed during the period of 2000- 2011 in Medan city, the kind of the land cover change were dryland farming mixed bush into dryland farming, fields into residential, secondary mangrove forest into fishpond, bush into fishpond, bush into plantation.The biggest wide change of land cover change was dryland farming mixed bush into dryland farming and wide value was 552,99Ha. It was caused by the influence of policy inforcement in terms of economic. Because of that, cooperation between people and government was needed to use land suitably in its function.