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
- the Department of Mining and Petroleum
Abstract
The Mae Tao Basin in Mae Sot district, Thailand,is a cadmium contaminated area, where the transcendentmedia transporter of the contaminant is sediment leached fromvarious surface runoff. The Revised Universal Soil LossEquation (RUSLE) incorporated with remote sensing andgeographic information system (GIS) software were applied toconduct a long-term monitoring of the potential erosion thatcan be leached out of the significant land use of the Mae TaoBasin from 2002 to 2016. The erosion potential was calculatedbased on the secondary data from both government andprivate sectors. The spatial analysis results indicate that highlevel of potential erosion occurred in the mining production aswell as the deciduous forest area of the Mae Tao Basin. Inaddition, the correlation between the overland sediment andthe contamination level in the water system of the basindemonstrates that the sediments from mining production areahave the highest correlation to the contamination in the watersystem of the Mae Tao Basin.
Keywords
- RUSLE
- contamination
- cadmium GIS
- heavy metal
- remote sensing
How to 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. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2017.8.9.1026
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