ANALISIS PERUBAHAN TUTUPAN LAHAN KAWASAN HUTAN MENGGUNAKAN CITRA LANDSAT 8 DI KECAMATAN PETASIA KABUPATEN MOROWALI UTARA SULAWESI TENGAH

At present the population growth is increasing which causes many people to encroach on the forest area to make ends meet. Various activities of land conversion have been carried out by the community, including the conversion of land into agricultural land, settlements, plantations, infrastructure and land conversion for mining, which has reduced the area of forest land.Based on this, this study has been conducted to know where the land cover changes, the type of land cover on the Forest Area in North Morowali County Petasia Subdistrict in the last 5-year period of the 2013 and 2018 priodes will be implemented for 2 months that is in April until May 2019. This study used a guided classification method that is classification that uses the pre-defined example regions. Based on the results of the 2013 and 2018 landsat 8 image analysis, the data on the changes in extents in each land cover class that is, primary dry land forests have decreased by an area of 2,109.40 ha, secondary dry land forests experienced an increase in area of 511.04 ha, mining experienced an increase in area of 280.64 ha, open land experienced an increase in area of 681, 82 ha, dry land mixed agriculture experienced an increase in area of 332.02 ha ha, the settlement experienced a 67.99 ha wide decline, the body of water experienced an increase in an area of 400.01 ha, the swamp saw a decrease in an area of 436.16 h