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    <title>Land suitability and crop substitution modeling for sugarcane and cassava in Kamphaeng-Phet Province, Thailand</title>
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    <namePart>Nopphawan Tamkuan</namePart>
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    <namePart>Tripathi, Nitin Kumar</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Soni, Peeyush</namePart>
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      <roleTerm type="text">Examination committee  </roleTerm>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Taravudh Tipdecho</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Preesan Rakwatin</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Royal Thai Government</namePart>
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      <roleTerm type="text">Scholarship donor</roleTerm>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="text">Pathum Thani, Thailand</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Asian Institute of Technology</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2013</dateIssued>
    <issuance>continuing</issuance>
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  <abstract>Thailand  is  importing  highly  expansive  energy  sources  such  as  petroleum  products. Moreover,  cassava  and  sugarcane can be used  as  food  and alternative  energy  source. Therefore,  this  study suggests the  use  of biofuel  crops  to  be  utilized  as  source  of  energy. Kampaeng-phet  province  was  selected  as  research  area  in  this  research  because  it  has potential for many industries to support growing these crops and extent the plantation. This  study  has three objectives.  The  first  objective  was  land  evaluation  for  cassava  and sugarcane  by considering 10  factors  including  soil  texture,  soil  depth,  soil  drainage,  soil fertility,  soil  pH,  surface  water,  irrigation,  rainfall,  temperature  and  slope. Then,  the weights of factors were investigated by analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Fuzzy AHP. It was found that Fuzzy AHP had approximately more accuracy than AHP to evaluate the land suitability for cassava and sugarcane plantation. The  second  objective  was  to  classify agricultural  area using  HJ-1A  satellite  image.  Two methods   of   classifications   in   this   study   were   pixel   base   classification   (maximum likelihood)  and  object  based  classification.  For  this  objective,  it  was found  that object based  classification had overall accuracy(76.27%)more than  pixel  based  classification (64.55%). The  last  objective  was to  make  crop  substitution  model  for  extending  cassava  and sugarcane plantation  regarding  land  suitability,  economics  (revenue  and  profit).The different  scenarios  showed  many  different  options  for planting biofeul  crops.  Crop substitution  modeling  regarding  land  suitability  had  area  to  substitute  to  grow  sugarcane (605.3  sq.km) was  more  than  cassava  (278.68  sq.km).  The  modeling  regarding  revenue (real  prices  in2012)  had  area  to  substitute  to  grow  sugarcane (1535.46  sq.km) was  more than cassava (14.09 sq.km).However, the model regarding profit had area that can be used to  substitute to  cassava  (1196.76  sq.km) had area more  than  sugarcane  (453.65sq.km)because cassava had lower capital cost than sugarcane.  </abstract>
  <note>A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems</note>
  <note>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2013</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sugarcane</topic>
    <topic>Remote sensing</topic>
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
    <geographic>Kamphaeng Phet</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cassava</topic>
    <topic>Remote sensing</topic>
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
    <geographic>Kamphaeng Phet</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geographic information systems</topic>
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
    <geographic>Kamphaeng Phet</geographic>
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      <title>Thesis ; no. RS-13-11</title>
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