Applying Gis And Remote Sensing To Assess Water Surface Area Change In Hanoi City From 1994 To 2016

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

VIETNAM FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

STUDENT THESIS

Title

Applying GIS And Remote Sensing To Assess Water Surface Area Change

In Hanoi City From 1994 To 2016

Major: Natural Resources Management

Code: D850101

Faculty: Forest Resources and Environmental Management

Student: Nguyen Van Duc Student ID: 1253090007

Class: K57 Natural Resources Management Course: 2012 - 2016

Advanced Education Program

Developed in collaboration with Colorado State University, USA

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Phung Van Khoa

Co-supervisor:

Ha Noi, March /2016

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This thesis would not have been possible without the support and help from my

teachers, friends, families and several people. I would like to express our special

appreciation of following people who supported me with my sincere gratitude:

I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my supervisor Dr.

Phung Van Khoa for his untiring and excellent guidance, valuable suggestions in my

dilemmas. His comments and advices have helped me to finish my thesis.

I am also thankful to Prof. Lee MacDonald for his enthusiasm in guiding me to

construct thesis proposal. His comments and criticism on my proposal helped me to present

better final thesis.

Further, I would like to thank the Department of Natural Resources and

Environment in Hanoi for support and giving me the chance to study in. Besides, I also

thank the local authorities in Hanoi for providing valuable information and data of the area.

I wish to thank the Center of Laboratory and Practice of Vietnam Forestry

University for providing me with survey instrument (GPS Garmin) for field survey. I also

thank my friends for their enthusiastic help in the process collected data in field survey.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......................................................................................................i

ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................... v

I. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................. 1

LITERATURE REVIEW ...................................................................................................... 3

Water surface related study.................................................................................................... 3

II. GOAL AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................ 5

2.1. Study Goal ...................................................................................................................... 5

2.2. Specific objectives.......................................................................................................... 5

2.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY................................................................................................ 5

III. METHODS ...................................................................................................................... 6

3.1. Data collection ................................................................................................................ 6

3.1.1. Interview data .............................................................................................................. 6

3.1.2. Field survey method..................................................................................................... 7

3.1.3. Integration of multi-temporal Landsat data and GIS ................................................... 7

3.1.4. Materials and data........................................................................................................ 9

IV. STUDY SITE, NATURAL AND SOCIAL FEATURES............................................. 10

4.1. STUDY AREA ............................................................................................................. 10

4.1.1. Climate....................................................................................................................... 11

4.1.2. Topography................................................................................................................ 11

4.1.3. Social-economic features.......................................................................................... 11

V.RESULT AND DISCUSSION ........................................................................................ 13

5.1. Image Classification ..................................................................................................... 13

5.2. Changes in Water surface cover in Hanoi from 1994 to 2016...................................... 14

5.2.1 Thematic Water surface cover in Hanoi ..................................................................... 14

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5.2.2. Accuracy assessment of Water surface cover classification...................................... 28

5.2.3. Spatial Water surface area change in the study time ................................................. 30

5.3. Recommendations for better management of water surface area in Hanoi .................. 31

VI.GENERAL CONCLUSION, LIMITATIONS AND FURTHER STUDY.................... 33

6.1. General conclusion ....................................................................................................... 33

6.2. Limitations.................................................................................................................... 34

6.3. Further studies............................................................................................................... 34

VII. REFERENCES............................................................................................................. 36

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