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1.      Theme: Markov Random Classification for Optical and Radar Image.

Global climate change which is caused by the increment of green house gas become major problem to the world, it is affected by deforestation and forest degradation (or usually called as Land cover change). Therefore we will need some tools or mean which can monitor deforestation and forest degradation. LAPAN as government authority has one of function which monitors Land cover through image satellite. The image satellite provides land cover spatial information. Kalimantan (one of island in Indonesia) which has land coverage majority is forest was taken in this research. These image satellites produced based on radar and optical sensor.

The Markov Random Field Classification (MRF classification) method was picked up as the method to determine land cover classes, for example like forest and non forest class. Before the MRF Classification process, we will process an image with Bayesian approach in unsupervised mixture model. Other classification method is picked up too as a comparator to MRF classification like Maximum Likelihood. Radar and optical image satellite in portion of Kalimantan area are used for classification.

The algorithm will be designed for classifying radar and optical image with MRF Classification method. Later output result from the algorithm can distinguish the difference of forest and non forest class or a class which has own unique pattern rather than other classes. Some statistic hypotheses can be used for testing final result land cover classes for its accuracy.

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Bidang Fokus   : Pengembangan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK)

2.      Sesuai dengan salah satu dari tugas pokok LAPAN yang menyelenggarakan fungsi dalam ”Penelitian, pengembangan dan pemanfaatan bidang penginderaan jauh, serta pengembangan bank data penginderaan jauh nasional dan pelayanannya”, dalam hal ini berkaitan dengan bidang fokus yang dipilih, dimana bidang tersebut mencantumkan ”..pengembangan teknologi satelit diharapkan mampu mendukung fungsi pengawasan hutan dan deteksi kebakaran hutan...”. Pemanfaatan teknologi satelit banyak digunakan dalam pemantauan atau pengawasan hutan khususnya teknologi satelit yang mampu merekam citra penginderaan jauh. Lapan banyak menyimpan citra satelit yang berfungsi memberikan informasi spasial.

3.      Rencana Studi yang akan dipilih mengenai pengolahan citra digital penginderaan jauh selama 2 tahun serta penelitian pengembangan metode pengolahan citra satelit penginderaan jauh multisensor.

4.      Alasan mengapa Program Beasiswa Pascasarjana Kemenristek sebaiknya memberikan beasiswa Program Gelar kepada calon Karyasiswa yang bersangkutan adalah karena kualitas Sumber Daya Manusia di LAPAN masih perlu ditingkatkan maka program ini akan menunjang penelitian yang saya pilih.