A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia
Date
2015
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Springer
Abstract
In Malaysia, areas under oil palm plantations have increased dramatically since the early twentieth century and have resulted in multiple conversions of land change. This paper presents a spatial and temporal model for simulation of oil palm expansion in the Kuala Langat district, Malaysia.
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Keywords
GIS, Land change modeling, Cellular automata (CA), Markov chain, Multi-criteria evaluation (MCE), Quantity disagreement, allocation disagreement
Citation
Nourqolipour, R., Mohamed Shariff, A. R. B., Balasundram, S. K., Ahmad, N. B., Sood, A. M., Buyong, T., & Amiri, F. (2015). A GIS-based model to analyze the spatial and temporal development of oil palm land use in Kuala Langat district, Malaysia. Environmental earth sciences, 73, 1687-1700.