CONCLUSION
The remote sensing data or technique is only suitable for
identification of flood prone areas if and only if assumption is made that
flood characteristics is change with the changing of the land use pattern.
Urdoubtly the flood characteristics will be effected but to produce a
numerical relationship is a tedious task. More studies should be
performed so that, for example, how the flood characteristics will be
effected when changes in percentage of primary forest coverage. For the
time being only relative studies (such as risk probability analysis) can
be performed.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank Terra Control Technologies (Malaysia)
for providing the Landsat images of the study area.
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