02898nam a2200265 a 450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000280007324501550010126000570025630000580031349000270037150001280039850200570052652015630058365000420214665000440218870000400223270000540227270000490232670000470237571000850242281000590250785600660256620260818143615.0140618s2012    th ad  |||   |000 0 eng d  a.b121333221 aLaluan, Enrico Mendoza 10aIntegration of spatial and policy-based interventions in simulating the land use and land cover (LU/LC) of Upper Marikina Watershed (UMW), Philippines  aPathum Thani :bAsian Institute of Technology,c2012  a114 leaves :bill., maps, charts +e1 online resource1 aThesis ;vno. RS-12-05  aA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Remote Sensing and GIS  aThesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2012  aSimilar to other watersheds in the Philippines, the Upper Marikina Watershed (UMW) is also exposed  to  rampant  resources  exploitation.  The  past  experiences  highlighted  the  seriousness of its continuous degradation and prompted the government and various sector of the society to undertake serious move to rehabilitate the watershed. This study  attempts to integrate the various  spatial  and  policy-based  interventions  in  projecting  the  land  use  and  land  cover (LU/LC) of UMW.  The Dyna-CLUE model, a spatially explicit model developed to project LU/LC was used in this   study.   The   various   interventions   and   managements   strategies   embodied   in   the government{u2019}s  and  private  sector{u2019}s  management  plans were  used  as  scenario  parameters. Additionally, 12 hypothesized layers which were assumed to be the explanatory variables for the development of a particular LU/LC type in the region was used. The result of simulations of  scenarios  two  and  three  obviously  demonstrates  the  outcome  if  the  planned  policies  are implemented  faithfully.  But  the  result  of  the  simulation  of  scenario  three  provided  the  best result for having the largest amount of forests after the end of simulation. The reliability of the result of simulation is dependent on the amount of information that are used as scenario parameters hence, it is recommended that additional socio-demographic data be included on future applications since generally it is the human dimension that affects  the LU/LC change. 0aLand usexRemote sensingzPhilippines 0aLand coverxRemote sensingzPhilippines1 aTripathi, Nitin Kumar,eChairperson1 aShrestha, Rajendra Prasad,eExamination Committee1 aClemente, Roberto S.,eExamination Committee1 aKamiya, Yoshikazu,eExamination committee 2 aAsian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Programme (ADB-JSP),eScholarship donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tThesis ;vno. RS-12-05  3Full-Textuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B03870