Landuse and Land Cover Change (LUCC): a case study in Idonesia

The Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) case study aimed to develop an operational methodology using Remote sensing and GIS technology for monitoring LUCC over time; and to identify and anayze the driving force behind LUCC. The study area selected upper Citarum Watershed as ”its basic unit of analysis to systematically and uniformly collect physical and sosio-economic information. There are significant variations of the pattern of changes at sub- district level. In some sub-districts, agricultural land together with settlement increased considerably, whereas forest area decreased. In other sub-districts, forest and settlement areas both increased, whereas agricultural land decreased. In the regression analysis, percentage change in the number of school pupils and number of industry establishment were factors that were found to be highly and significantly cause increased in the settlement area.