Land Use Changes of Ternate Island 2017-2022

The phenomenon of land use change always increases with population growth so that sooner or later these conditions will cause changes in land use. This study aims to determine changes in land use on Ternate Island in 2017-2022. The method used maximum likelihood classification and used Ternate island land use data from sentinel 2 image extraction in 2017, 2020 and 2022 to analyze changes in land use. There are 7 forms of land use in the study area, namely water bodies, dense vegetation, bushes, farm land, settlements, bare land, Scrub and cloud cover that cannot be extracted from multispectral images. Land use that dominates the island of Ternate is dense vegetation and settlements. Land use, dense vegetation is evenly distributed on the slopes of Gamalama volcano and settlements are scattered at the foot of the volcano. Land use change on Ternate island in 2017-2020 and 2017-2022 is dominated by dense vegetation to settlements. Changes in dense vegetation to gardens and grasses are land clearing activities in preparation for the use of settlement land. © 2023 EDP Sciences. All rights reserved.