Abstract:
Abstract. It has been done research of environmental vulnerability degradation in coal mining
area planning using satellite imagery and Geographic Information System. Vulnerability of
environmental degradation is the condition of areas that has potential to damage the
environment because of human activities or activity that has potential to cause environmental
impacts. Monitoring of environmental degradation can be done to determine the ecological
vulnerabilities so as to predict and overcome the future events. The development of remote
sensing technology and geographic information systems can facilitate the spatial analysis
especially environmental degradation. This research was done to map the vulnerability of
environmental degradation in coal mining area planning in Banjar regency and classify
environmental damage in the area. The analysis based on scoring and weighting of each index
resulting ecological vulnerability index (EVI). The results of the overlay and weighting using
weighted summation model’s method in coal mining area planning was plotted into four types
of zone, i.e., appropriate exploitation zone, optimized exploitation zone, needs to monitoring
exploitation zone, and recommended not to be exploitation zone. Thus, the classification of
environmental damage in the coal mining area planning of which are moderate to severe
erosion, surface runoff in the watershed, moderate salinity resulting in soil degradation,
vegetation does not grow well and loss of recharge area.
