Evaluating Recreational Resources of South East Johar using Remotely Sensed Data
Shattri Mansor, Mohd Isa Mansor and Azmi Hassan
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engnieering
University Pertanian Malaysia
43400 Serdang
Abstract
Land Evaluation for recreational land use is becoming more important in these days increasing numbers of people take part in recreational activities and the income from tourism is a welcome support to the economy of many countries including Malaysia . There for proper management of these resources is dearly needed a study has been undertaken to evaluate natural resources for recreational land use utilizing spot MSS data and aerial photo graphs case study Johar is presented.
1.0 introduction
Land evaluation is the process of estimating the potential of land for alternative kinds of use these include productive uses such as arable farming live stock production and forestry together with uses that provide services or other benefits such as recreation tourism and wild life conservation the basic feature of land evaluation is the comparison of the requirements of land use with resources offered by the land.
Recreation is frequently related to tourism . Tourism can be defined as those types of recreation for which one leaves the home environment for shorter or longer duration since the pressure on the recreational resources in increasing proper management to the resources is increasing proper management of these resources is needed . this can be best presented in a land evaluation procedure where earth resources information is indispensable in this inventory and analysis phase of such a procedure satellite image and air photo interpretation has been fully utilized
2.0. Identification of recreational resources
In land evaluation for recreation, the land utilization types are different types of recreation such as swimming, boating, orienteering, hiking, etc. and the land mapping unit can be interpreted for their recreational resources. The first task in this study is to identify what are the relevant recreational land utilization types and what are their
requirements with respect to the characteristics of their land mapping units (resources). The preference types of recreation depends on the availability, accessibility of resources and facilities. It also depends on the socio-economic, cultural characteristics of a population and ‘lifestyles’.
There are several kinds of enquiry surveys on recreational preferences, mostly require a lot of time and effort. A more direct approach is to make an inventory of the number, type and capacity of all kinds of terrestrial or creational possibilities. From such an inventory a general impression can be obtained of what types of recreational activities occur in an area and what are their original resources.
In this study, natural features of the landscape is considered as resources for recreation. Certain man-made features such as reservoirs, dams, monuments, historical sites, etc. that can attract receptionist are also considered.
