A Study of Land Use from Satellite Image in Saraburi Province

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the land use to mapping of some economic crops in Saraburi Province. The information from satellite Landsat-8 were used and analyzed by Geographic Information System and Supervised Classification of probability group. The result shows that the land use could be classified to 5 type in economic crops i.e. rice, sugarcane, corn, cassava, and oil palm. The most of the crop area is rice 24.35 percent of the total areas, next is sugarcane, corn, cassava, and oil palm that 10.73%, 7.36%, 2.94% and 0.07%, respectively and 54.55% other area. In addition, also to study the Geographic Information System relationship between land use can be applied to mapping of the economic crop area quickly, accurately and efficiently. The results of this study will be useful for economic crop to planning in Saraburi Province for people interesting to suit the potential of the area.