ESTIMATION OF GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION USING SATELLITE DATA AND GIS IN URBAN AREA, DENPASAR

Abstract

Remote sensing data with high spatial resolution is very useful to provideinformation about Gross Primary Production (GPP) especially over spatial coverage in theurban area. Most models of ecosystem carbon exchange based on remote sensing data usedlight use efficiency (LUE) model. The aim of this research was to analyze the distributionof annual GPP urban area of Denpasar. Two main satellite data used in this study wereALOS/AVNIR-2 and Aster satellite data. Result showed that annual value of GPP usingALOS/AVNIR-2 varied from 0.130 gC m-2 yr-1 to 2586.181 gC m-2 yr-1. Meanwhile, usingAster the value varied from 0.144 gC m-2 yr-1 to 2595.264 gC m-2 yr-1. The annual value ofGPP ALOS was lower than the value of Aster, because ALOS have high spatial resolutionand smaller interval of spectral resolution compared to Aster. Different land use couldeffect the value of GPP, because the different land use has different vegetation type,distribution, and different photosynthetic pathway type. The high spatial resolution of theremote sensing data is crucial to discriminate different land cover types in urban region.With heterogeneous land cover surface, maximum value of GPP using ALOS/AVNIR-2was smaller than that of Aster, however, the annual mean of GPP value usingALOS/AVNIR-2 was higher than that of Aster.