Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Cameron Highlands, which have the area covered of 712 km2 is one of the district of Pahang state in peninsular Malaysia. This place also very famous among the people as the tourism spot because of the hilly terrain that promote nice view and cool weather. However, soil erosion is become one of the m...

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Main Author: Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil
Format: Final Year Project
Language: English
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2018
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling utp-utpedia.181072018-11-22T14:38:04Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18107/ Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Cameron Highlands, which have the area covered of 712 km2 is one of the district of Pahang state in peninsular Malaysia. This place also very famous among the people as the tourism spot because of the hilly terrain that promote nice view and cool weather. However, soil erosion is become one of the main issues and problems, due to the heavy rains and activities of the community. This study is to produce soil erosion susceptibility map in Cameron Highlands, using frequency ratio (FR) model integrated with Geographic Information System. Four thematic layers, consisting of elevation, slope, aspect, and curvature, were used in the susceptibility analysis. 140 locations of soil erosion was used as the data obtain from previous studies. Four causative factors maps produced with the aids of ArcGIS software. The weighted values for each factor were calculated according to frequency ratio model and soil erosion susceptibility map was created. Finally, three zone includes low, moderate and high was shown in the map. Approximately 51 % of the map show the area that have low prone soil erosion to occur. While, 40% of the area show zone of moderate prone to soil erosion. The area that fall under zone of high was about 19% of the total area. In order to validate the performance and accuracy of the model, area under the curve (AUC) technique was used. Based on the validate technique, the success rate shown that Frequency Ratio model had 74.42 % performance. While, the prediction rate of the model shown accuracy of 74.26 %. As the conclusion, this result shows that the Frequency Ratio model had successful performance. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2018-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18107/1/Final_dissertation.PDF Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil (2018) Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Submitted)
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Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil
Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
description Cameron Highlands, which have the area covered of 712 km2 is one of the district of Pahang state in peninsular Malaysia. This place also very famous among the people as the tourism spot because of the hilly terrain that promote nice view and cool weather. However, soil erosion is become one of the main issues and problems, due to the heavy rains and activities of the community. This study is to produce soil erosion susceptibility map in Cameron Highlands, using frequency ratio (FR) model integrated with Geographic Information System. Four thematic layers, consisting of elevation, slope, aspect, and curvature, were used in the susceptibility analysis. 140 locations of soil erosion was used as the data obtain from previous studies. Four causative factors maps produced with the aids of ArcGIS software. The weighted values for each factor were calculated according to frequency ratio model and soil erosion susceptibility map was created. Finally, three zone includes low, moderate and high was shown in the map. Approximately 51 % of the map show the area that have low prone soil erosion to occur. While, 40% of the area show zone of moderate prone to soil erosion. The area that fall under zone of high was about 19% of the total area. In order to validate the performance and accuracy of the model, area under the curve (AUC) technique was used. Based on the validate technique, the success rate shown that Frequency Ratio model had 74.42 % performance. While, the prediction rate of the model shown accuracy of 74.26 %. As the conclusion, this result shows that the Frequency Ratio model had successful performance.
format Final Year Project
author Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil
author_sort Bin Mohamad Nor , Muhammad Fadhil
title Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
title_short Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
title_full Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
title_fullStr Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Frequency Ratio Method for Soil Erosion Susceptibility Map in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
title_sort assessing frequency ratio method for soil erosion susceptibility map in cameron highlands, malaysia
publisher Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
publishDate 2018
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18107/1/Final_dissertation.PDF
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