Analisis Perubahan Tutupan Lahan Kota Medan Bagian Tengah Tahun 2005-2019

Abstract

Development activities in urban areas continue to increase, especially in the middle part of Medan City This is due to the increasing number of population each year resulting in changes in land cover in urban areas, wrong one of them is the Middle City of Medan which includes ten sub-districts, namely Medan Area, Medan Barat, Medan Denai, Medan Helvetia, Medan Kota, Medan Perjuangan, Medan Petisah, Medan Sunggal, Medan Tembung, Medan Timur. This research aims to identify and analyze changes in land cover that occurred during several years in the Middle Medan City. This research was conducted from April to August 2022. By using Landsat 5 and 8 the guided classification method and kappa accuracy test were carried out. From Results identification found 5 classes of land cover, namely water bodies, mixed gardens, open land, settlements, and bush. Based on the research results obtained that the total area of the research area is 7.854,12 Ha. From 2005 to In 2019 there has been a decrease in the largest area in the open land classification of 1053,27 Ha (13,43%) and an increase in settlements of 2592,81 Ha (33,06%). this is due to the large number of developments that support the activities of urban communities and the factor of insufficient land availability causing a shift in land governance.