Land Cover Change in Kuningan District During 1994 - 2015

AbstractLand cover is a physical appearance of land and represents its ecological status. It is dynamically changed due to human intervention, natural disturbance and succession. This research aims to monitor the land cover change in Kuningan Regency during the period of 1994 to 2015. Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing were used to determine the changes based on date series of Landsat satellite imagery. The result showed that there was a high increase of 5 (five) land cover types, namely: dryland farming (10,12%), settlement (384.04%), rice field (118,95%), shrubland (27.30%), and bare land (4,277.68%). Meanwhile, there was a decrease of 4 (four) land cover types, namely: natural forest (43.53%), plantation forest (34.77%), mixed garden (63.27%), and water bodies (4.35%)