Land-cover maps were important for many scientific, ecological and land management purposes and during the last decades, rapid decrease of soil fertility was observed to be due to land use practices such as rice cultivation. High-precision land-cover maps are not yet available in the area which is important in an economy management. To assure accurate mapping of land cover to provide information, remote sensing is a very suitable tool to carry out this task and automatic land use and cover detection. The study did not only provide high precision land cover maps but it also provide estimates of rice production area that had undergone chemical degradation due to fertility decline. Land-cover were delineated and classified into pre-defined classes to achieve proper detection features. After generation of Land-cover map, of high intensity of rice cultivation, soil fertility degradation assessment in rice production area due to fertility decline was created to assess the impact of soils used in agricultural production. Using Simple spatial analysis functions and ArcGIS, the Land-cover map of Municipality of Quezon in Nueva Ecija, Philippines was overlaid to the fertility decline maps from Land Degradation Assessment Philippines- Bureau of Soils and Water Management (LADA-Philippines- BSWM) to determine the area of rice crops that were most likely where nitrogen, phosphorus, zinc and sulfur deficiencies were induced by high dosage of urea and imbalance N:P fertilization. The result found out that 80.00 % of fallow and 99.81% of rice production area has high soil fertility decline.
Climate change has wide-ranging effects on the environment and socio-economic and related sectors which includes water
resources, agriculture and food security, human health, terrestrial ecosystems, coastal zones and biodiversity. Farmers are
under pressure to the changing weather and increasing unpredictable water supply. Because of rainfall deficiencies,
artificial application of water has been made through irrigation. Irrigation is a basic determinant of agriculture because its
inadequacies are the most powerful constraints on the increase of agricultural production. Irrigation networks are
permanent and temporary conduits that supply water to agricultural areas from an irrigation source. Detection of irrigation
networks using LiDAR DTM, and flood susceptible assessment of irrigation networks could give baseline information on
the development and management of sustainable agriculture.
Map Gully Depth (MGD) in Whitebox GAT was used to generate the potential irrigation networks. The extracted MGD
was overlaid in ArcGIS as guide in the digitization of potential irrigation networks. A flood hazard map was also used to
identify the flood susceptible irrigation networks in the study area. The study was assessed through field validation of
points which were generated using random sampling method.
Results of the study showed that most of the detected irrigation networks have low to moderate susceptibility to flooding
while the rest have high susceptibility to flooding which is due to shifting weather. These irrigation networks may cause
flood when it overflows that could also bring huge damage to rice and other agricultural areas.
Mangroves are considered as one of the major habitats in coastal ecosystem, providing a lot of economic and
ecological services in human society. Nypa fruticans (Nipa palm) is one of the important species of mangroves
because of its versatility and uniqueness as halophytic palm. However, nipas are not only adaptable in saline
areas, they can also managed to thrive away from the coastline depending on the favorable soil types available
in the area. Because of this, mapping of this species are not limited alone in the near shore areas, but in areas
where this species are present as well. The extraction process of Nypa fruticans were carried out using the
available LiDAR data. Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification process was used to extract nipas in inland
areas. The SVM classification process in mapping Nypa fruticans produced high accuracy of 95+%. The
Support Vector Machine classification process to extract inland nipas was proven to be effective by utilizing
different terrain derivatives from LiDAR data.
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