The Use of Satellite Imagery for Land Use Updating

The aims of this research is to determine the land use changes in Sawit Sub-Sub-District of Boyolali on 2005-2015 by using satellite imagery and GIS aplications. The research method is used descriptive method, which is provide an overview of land use changes that occured from 2005-2015 in Sawit Sub-Sub-District using map. Data collected from satellite imagery as the basic data of this research which is processed using GIS aplications with data validation by using data triangulation. This data is compared every 5 years, and then the land use changes are analyzed. The final result of this research is the land use changes for 10 years in Sawit Sub-Sub-District of Boyolali. The land changes taht occured from 20052010 were of two types, they are rice fields into sattlements and rice fields into garden, while in 2010-2015 there were three types of the land use changes, namely rice fields into settlements, rice fields become garden and garden into settlements. The most land use change is a reducted in utilization of rice fields and increasing the settlements. By utilizing the satellite imagery and GIS applications, it will be easier to observe the land use changes, and then it can updating the land use according to the desired time and image availability.