Spatial - Temporal variability of Land Use Land Cover at Mount Merapi, Indonesia

Abstract

One of the most active volcanoes in the island of Java is Merapi mount which was experienced the last major eruption peak on October 26th, 2010. This volcanic eruption was effusive eruption type where magmatic gas pressure in the crater was not too strong and magma eruption was just flown out past the slopes of the Merapi mount area. However, magmatic gas pressure and magma volume still result in deformation changes that have a direct impact on residential areas throughout the Merapi mount area. Residential areas were obtained through supervised classification process from Landsat 7 and 8-satellite imagery in the 2009, 2011 and 2019 acquisition year. The reason of observation year selection was based on pre and post eruption concept to get pattern of Merapi’s mountain body change through deformation analysis. The work focuses on spatial-temporal variability of land use land cover analysis at Mount Merapi pre and post 2010 eruption event considered here. The technique is based on NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) and False Colour Composite methodology. Based on change in number of pixels it was analysed. Actually, some portion of land was covered with clouds and its shadows. From the results it was observed that, water body, barren and built up features were miss classified. So finally False Colour Composite (FCC) images are used to identify the misclassified classes.