Mapping of Land Cover Using Remote Sensing in Papela Village, Rote Timur District in 2021

Land cover mapping with remote sensing has never been done in Papela Village. This land cover mapping can provide information to the Papela village government regarding land cover in Papela village. Since 2021, Papela village has experienced regional expansion. Therefore, in this study, it aims to map the land cover on Rote Island, precisely in Papela village, Rote Ndao Regency before the expansion of the area using remote sensing. The remote sensing data used is a Landsat 8 image recorded in March 2021 which was downloaded from the USGS website. Landsat 8 imagery is classified in a guided manner according to the land cover training area data taken by GPS. The results of this study are in the form of land cover maps in Papela village. From this map, 6 classes of land cover were obtained, namely settlements (22.73 ha), shrubs (56.52 ha), forests and mangroves (39.76 ha), rice fields (31.39 ha), ponds (1.46 ha), and gardens (6.48 ha).