Georest: Geoscience, Remote Sensing, and Technology
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Georest

Mapping Coastline Changes In The Mentawai Islands Using Remote Sensing




Article Info

Publish Date
04 Aug 2022

Abstract

The Mentawai Islands are an active deformation zone caused by the movement of the Indo-Australian plate under the Eurasian plate at a speed of 5-6 cm/year. The movement of these plates that occur continuously can be a source of earthquake disasters in the future. However, the information on how much the value of the distance to the coastline changes and the direction of the change has not been well mapped. In this study, a mapping of shoreline changes caused by plate movement along the coast in the Mentawai Islands was carried out using Landsat Imagery. The method used in this research is the Overlay method between Landsat Imagery 2005,2010, and 2020 using ArcGIS software and the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) which is used to determine the distance between shoreline changes and the direction of the change. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the coast of the Mentawai Islands showed a change in the coastline with the average distance of change, namely Siberut Island of -2,109 m, Sipora Island at -2,979 m, North Pagai Island at -3,282 m, and South Pagai Island -1,557 m. From the results obtained, the distance of significant shoreline changes that occur in South Pagai Island with the direction of change towards the Northeast.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

geo

Publisher

Subject

Astronomy Earth & Planetary Sciences Physics

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Georest: Geoscience, Remote Sensing and Technology is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to interchange for the results of high-quality research in all aspect of Sciences, Geoscience, Geophysics, Remote Sensing, Drone, Radar SAR, Optical Satellite, LiDAR, Radar Antenna, ...