The hotspot of MODIS Aqua/Terra represents the high risk of land/forest fire due to an extreme temperature over the hotspot location. Spatial-temporal analysis of the hotspot can be used to map the regions with a high vulnerability of forest/land fires. This study has an objective to use hotspot data from MODIS Aqua/Terra to map the forest/land fires over the Humbang Hasudutan Regency from 2001 to 2019. In spatial, the hotspot mostly occurs in the eastern part of the study area (Doloksanggul and Pollung), which this area has assigned as the peatland area. Based on land cover, the hotspot often detected over the dryland agriculture, dryland with shrubs, and bare soil. In temporal, the hotspot mostly increases during the dry seasons such as February, June, and July. The hotspot decreases during the wet season, such as January, October, November, and December. Besides, there was an inversely proportional between the number of detected hotspots and rainfall over the study area.
Tornado wind often occurs in Humbang Hasudutan (Humbahas), North Sumatra. Even though the map of tornado vulnerability has constructed by The National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB), but several regions did not yet have this map due to limited observation data. This study’s objective is to map the vulnerability of tornado in Humbahas using satellite data where the satellite data has more significant quality in area coverage and time-series data. The Composite Mapping Analysis (CMA) has been used to model the vulnerability map. There were three factors has used in this model, such as rainfall, land cover, and slope. Based on the tornado vulnerability map, there was an 802,406.24 ha area (74.63%) in Humbahas, classified as “high” risk to Tornado disaster. There was 271,945.46 ha (25.29%), which assigned as “moderate” risk. About 786.51 ha (0.07%) of the Humbahas area has a “low” risk of tornado disaster. As a result, the study area has a “moderate” to “high” risk of tornado wind disaster, then the adaption and mitigation plans need to be done in handling tornado hazard in this region.
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