Judul: Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Energy Balance Modeling for Detection of Drought and Its Publication in the Internet (Case Study of Karawang District, West Java)
Abstrak: Drought detection based on evaporative fraction (EF) in Karawang district has been done by using remote sensing and energy balance modeling. EF indicates how much of the available energy is used for evapotranspiration, that is, for transpiration of the vegetation and evaporation of the soil and EF will be close to one (no water stress). As long as moisture is available, energy will be used for its evaporation. With little or no moisture left, all available energy will be directed into the sensible heat flux and EF will approach zero (serious water stress). The objectives of this research are to analyze energy balance and evaporative fraction as drought indicator in Karawang district; to asses the potential use of remote sensing capability in identifying the surface cover parameter of image and visualization using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System and to develop a web-based GIS application to visualize and disseminate research results. The core processes of workflows involved in this research are image pre processing, data processing and analysis, and developing web-based GIS. Potential drought in Karawang district is low either in the wet season or dry season. Web based GIS drought indicator in Karawang district has been tested by sample end user. This process was done to see comments from the users after seeing and using this system.
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Judul: Penentuan indeks kekeringan agro-hidrologi untuk analisis risiko kekeringan dan mitigasinya (Studi Kasus DAS Kariango Sulawesi Selatan).
Abstrak: Agro-Hydrological drought can be interpreted as a shortage of surface water and groundwater supplying and insufficient for the plants and society needs a certain period. So far there have been no study assessing the agro-hidrology drought index. This study develops a Drought Hazard Index (DHI) as an indicator of Agro-Hydrological drought. The model developed from a combination of dry season rainfall, ground water depth, distance of water sources, soil texture and Water Supply Vegetation Index (WSVI) using remote sensing and GIS methods. Further analysis was caeried out to develop vulnerability and risk of drought which gave an overview of areas that need to be formulated for drought mitigation in the Kariango watershed. Agro-hidrologi Drought Hazard Index was DHI = (0.33CH) + (0.27KAT) + (0.20SA) + (0.13T) + (0.06WSVI) with model validation results showed high similarity drought in the field. The results of the analysis of vulnerability describes 25 % of villages are classified vulnerable. In the drought risk analysis shows the highest class are 19.52 % and 40.98 % are the dominant from paddy fields So that the mitigation efforts created are made together in the form of regulation and capacity building with reference to the combination of risk parameters included hazard risk and vulnerability.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii