Abstract:
Abstract:The availability of productive land becomes one of the main problems in the development of food security and independence of Indonesian farmers.After the regional autonomy era begins, the food business is the responsibility of local government, both at provincial and district / city, the implementation and operational excellence tailored to the potential for their respective regions.Act No. 7of 1996 on Food, in particular article 45, 46, 47, and 48 explain that achieve food security is the responsibility of the government and the community.In order to support making the right decisions to maintain local food security, support is needed more accurate data, especially in raw paddy fields as the main source of producing rice.Extensive data collection of raw paddy fields along with other supporting data, basically to increase the availability of extensive data and information materials on various levels of administrative fields that have a high accuracy.Satellite imagery interpretation that can produce high accuracy is high-resolution satellite imagery such as Ikonos or image Quickbird image.Based on the results of this mapping is concluded that the total land area of raw rice is obtained from measurements in four districts (Kec. Barabai, Kec. Labuan Amas Selatan, Kec. Labuan Amas Utara and Kec. Haruyan) in Middle River Upper District is 25,277.35 haconsisting of 9,311.17 ha of rainfed lowland, 1,876.00 and 14,090.18hairrigated lowland.Keywords:rice field,High ResolutionImage,mapping
