IJESD 2017 Vol.8(9): 615-621 ISSN: 2010-0264
doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2017.8.9.1026
doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2017.8.9.1026
Spatial Monitoring of Potential Overland Sediment from Significant Land Use Types, for the Remote Contaminated Area of the Mae Tao Basin, Thailand: 15 Years Monitoring Period
K. Somprasong
Abstract—The Mae Tao Basin in Mae Sot district, Thailand,
is a cadmium contaminated area, where the transcendent
media transporter of the contaminant is sediment leached from
various surface runoff. The Revised Universal Soil Loss
Equation (RUSLE) incorporated with remote sensing and
geographic information system (GIS) software were applied to
conduct a long-term monitoring of the potential erosion that
can be leached out of the significant land use of the Mae Tao
Basin from 2002 to 2016. The erosion potential was calculated
based on the secondary data from both government and
private sectors. The spatial analysis results indicate that high
level of potential erosion occurred in the mining production as
well as the deciduous forest area of the Mae Tao Basin. In
addition, the correlation between the overland sediment and
the contamination level in the water system of the basin
demonstrates that the sediments from mining production area
have the highest correlation to the contamination in the water
system of the Mae Tao Basin.
Index Terms—RUSLE, contamination, cadmium GIS, heavy metal, remote sensing.
K. Somprasong, is with the Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (e-mail: komsoon.s@cmu.ac.th).
Index Terms—RUSLE, contamination, cadmium GIS, heavy metal, remote sensing.
K. Somprasong, is with the Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (e-mail: komsoon.s@cmu.ac.th).
Cite: K. Somprasong, "Spatial Monitoring of Potential Overland Sediment from Significant Land Use Types, for the Remote Contaminated Area of the Mae Tao Basin, Thailand: 15 Years Monitoring Period," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 615-621, 2017.
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