Determination of Shoreline Changes along Upstream of Se San River, Kontum Province based Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data Analysis

Abstract

Se San river upstream includes Poko tributary (on the right bank) and Dak Bla tributary (on the left bank), mostly located in Kon Tum province. The process of river sediment decline has dramatic shoreline changes in this area, which becomes a driving-force to modify the current socio-economic development as well as the impact on territorial planning in the future. This study aims to analyze the shoreline changes by extracting multi-temporal satellite imagery of Landsat in the period of 1990-2013 and identify its change effects on land-use. The results show that the strongest erosion rate was -2.96 m/year in Dak Bla tributary (in Kon Tum town). And in the Poko tributary, the average value of erosion rate is -1.31 m/year and the average accretion rate is 1.17 m/year. In the context of dramatic land-use change, this approach allows to support for territorial management and illustrates the accretion-erosion relationship in river basin evolution.