Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

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STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR WILDLIFE

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SUITABILITY

(Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

WIM IKBAL NURSAL

GRADUATE PROGRAM

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STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR

WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SUITABILITY

WIM IKBAL NURSAL

A Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Sciences of Bogor Agricultural University

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

FOR NATURAL RESOUCES MANAGEMENT

GRADUATE SCHOOL

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STATEMENT

I, Wim Ikbal Nursal, here by stated that this thesis entitled:

Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

Is completed based on my original work during the period of June 2005 to

December 2006 and that has not been published before. The content of the thesis

has been examined by the advising committee and external examiner.

Bogor, February 2007

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my grateful to Allah the Merciful for His blessing

and being the Closest Companion, so far that I could reach the final phase of

thesis completion. My great gratitude is also addressed to:

• Dr. Lilik Budi Prasetyo and Ir. Idung Risdiyanto, M.Sc, as my supervisor and co-supervisor who have been supporting and giving me advice and insight

either for the current time, that is thesis completion, and the future time.

• Dr Gatot Haryo Pramono as external examiner for giving excellent inputs.

• Dr Tania June as Program Coordinator of Master of Science in Information Technology (MIT) for Natural Resources Management – Programme who has

been supporting my education progress and thesis completion.

• MIT’s crews including Uma, Devi and Bambang who have been helping me

much in preparing the academic administration.

• Rufford Small Grant committee that provided fund so that the field survey

could possibly be conducted.

• National park rangers, Perhutani Staff in Cangkuang and Unit III Jawa Barat for authorization in conducting survey in park.

• My mother and father, brothers and sister, and the special one who always

encourage, give trust, and keep patient waiting for me.

• Yudi and Tri in Environmental Spatial Analysis PPLH-IPB for ancillary data.

• Brili, Toto for ancillary distribution data, Wen-wen, and the whole of my

classmates who directly and indirectly encouraged me, and all current MIT’s

students who always care for the others, and for whom that I could not

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Wim Ikbal Nursal was born in Medan, 18th August 1976. In

1995 he finished studying in SMA Negeri 1 Medan, and then

entered Bogor Agricultural Department, Faculty of Forestry,

majoring on Forest Resources Conservation Department.

More than three years since graduated from bachelor degree,

he had been actived and worked in local NGOs (currently

established in Bogor) which have interest in forest conservation research and

environmental education, such as Yayasan Mitra Rhino, Lestari Hutan Indonesia,

Biodiversity Conservation Indonesia, and Institute of Mangrove Research and

Development.

In 2003, he started pursuing master degree in Master of Science in

Information Technology for Natural Resources Management, Faculty of

Mathematic and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University. The curriculum

content has taken much his current interests in GIS and Remote Sensing,

Modeling, and Information Technology especially in spatial based programming

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ABSTRACT

Wim Ikbal Nursal (2007). Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java). Under the supervision of Dr Lilik Budi Prasetyo, M.Sc and Ir. Idung Risdiyanto, M.Sc.

The synthesis of wildlife-habitat studies, multivariate habitat analysis, and wildlife mapping techniques is very promising to provide a basis for impact assessment and mitigation, conservation and monitoring of wildlife (Morrison et al., 1992). In contrast, case studies of the synthesis still have been rarely done in Indonesia. The need of it is obvious considering that Indonesia has a lot of protected areas. In this context, developing such GIS application which carrying the synthesis could be useful to support designing management plan in spatial basis. The case study in order to test the system performance is javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) in Gunung Salak considering to its status as a critically endangered and keystone species for Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park.

The GIS Application is developed by using iterative and incremental approach. The development has two phases, that is initial phase or requirement analysis and construction phase. In the initial phase, the intended system and its needed functionalities were determined, whereas in the construction phase the functionalities were further analyzed, designed, and finally implemented. The system was tested using the spatial data which represents habitat factor of javan gibbon and the performance of the system was examined.

The concerned system, namely SUITSTAT, was succesfully built. It is equipped with data preparation and habitat suitability model functionalities. Including in data preparation is basic geoprocessing, ecogeographical variable generation, and species distribution mapping. The habitat suitability model follows decision rules based method, specifically Simple Additive Weighting, which comprises of weight calculation based on presence data, standardization, and score calculation. The suitability habitat information is available in spatial and chart format. Based on system assessment, most of processes were performed well. Some drawbacks are existed which addressed for future development, such as refinement of dissolve algorithm and data preparation functionalities.

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Used Software for Application Development... 14

Table 2. System Component Matrix ... 23

Table 3. Spatial Features and Spatial Properties Relationship... 24

Table 4. Several Types of Analysis to Spatial Features... 28

Table 5. SUITSTAT’s User Interface ... 44

Table 6. The Nature of Geographic Distribution of Javan Gibbon in Mt. Salak Based on 29 Observation Points ... 64

Table 7. Principal Component Loadings and Weight for Each Spatial Variable ... 65

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Iterative and Incremental Approach (modified after Barroca et al.,

2000 in Zhao, 2002) ... 13

Figure 2. Theoretical Framework... 15

Figure 3. Data Preparation Work Flow ... 19

Figure 4. Organization Structure of GHSNP Based on the Decree of MoF No. 355/Menhut-II/2004... 22

Figure 5. Conceptual System ... 22

Figure 6. Illustration of Spatial Properties (Ecogeographical Variable) that Influencing Wildlife Response. Each Grid has Its Own Spatial Characteristic, such like Proximity (Distance to Road [represented by black line], River [represented by blue line]) and Content Arrangement (the Area of Landcover Contained In, Marked by x and y Letter) ... 24

Figure 7. Major Functionalities of the SUITSTAT... 26

Figure 8. Flowchart of Content Analysis ... 29

Figure 9. Flowchart of Proximity Analysis... 30

Figure 10. The Illustration of Neighboring Grid of a Point ... 31

Figure 11. Aggregation Analysis Method (Notes: Further Description is Available in the Text) ... 33

Figure 12. Flowchart of Ecogeographical Data Generation... 34

Figure 13. The Illustration of Visual Method (a) and Triangle Method (b). Visual Method Uses Observer Position (x, y), Compass Bearing (α) and Observer Distance to Species (d) to Determine Species Position. In Constrast, Triangle Method Only Needs Two Observers Positions and Compass Bearing of each Position to the Sign of Invisible Species (S). ... 35

Figure 14. Algorithm for Determining or Mapping Species Position... 36

Figure 15. The Illustration of Point Buffering Algorithm... 37

Figure 16. The Illustration of Dissolve Algorithm ... 38

Figure 17. Vector-based Gridding Algorithm... 39

Figure 18. Process Flow of Habitat Suitability Module... 40

Figure 19. Weighting Algorithm... 41

Figure 20. The Algorithm of Score Calculation ... 43

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STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR WILDLIFE

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SUITABILITY

WIM IKBAL NURSAL

GRADUATE PROGRAM

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STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR

WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SUITABILITY

WIM IKBAL NURSAL

A Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Sciences of Bogor Agricultural University

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

FOR NATURAL RESOUCES MANAGEMENT

GRADUATE SCHOOL

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STATEMENT

I, Wim Ikbal Nursal, here by stated that this thesis entitled:

Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

Is completed based on my original work during the period of June 2005 to

December 2006 and that has not been published before. The content of the thesis

has been examined by the advising committee and external examiner.

Bogor, February 2007

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my grateful to Allah the Merciful for His blessing

and being the Closest Companion, so far that I could reach the final phase of

thesis completion. My great gratitude is also addressed to:

• Dr. Lilik Budi Prasetyo and Ir. Idung Risdiyanto, M.Sc, as my supervisor and co-supervisor who have been supporting and giving me advice and insight

either for the current time, that is thesis completion, and the future time.

• Dr Gatot Haryo Pramono as external examiner for giving excellent inputs.

• Dr Tania June as Program Coordinator of Master of Science in Information Technology (MIT) for Natural Resources Management – Programme who has

been supporting my education progress and thesis completion.

• MIT’s crews including Uma, Devi and Bambang who have been helping me

much in preparing the academic administration.

• Rufford Small Grant committee that provided fund so that the field survey

could possibly be conducted.

• National park rangers, Perhutani Staff in Cangkuang and Unit III Jawa Barat for authorization in conducting survey in park.

• My mother and father, brothers and sister, and the special one who always

encourage, give trust, and keep patient waiting for me.

• Yudi and Tri in Environmental Spatial Analysis PPLH-IPB for ancillary data.

• Brili, Toto for ancillary distribution data, Wen-wen, and the whole of my

classmates who directly and indirectly encouraged me, and all current MIT’s

students who always care for the others, and for whom that I could not

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Wim Ikbal Nursal was born in Medan, 18th August 1976. In

1995 he finished studying in SMA Negeri 1 Medan, and then

entered Bogor Agricultural Department, Faculty of Forestry,

majoring on Forest Resources Conservation Department.

More than three years since graduated from bachelor degree,

he had been actived and worked in local NGOs (currently

established in Bogor) which have interest in forest conservation research and

environmental education, such as Yayasan Mitra Rhino, Lestari Hutan Indonesia,

Biodiversity Conservation Indonesia, and Institute of Mangrove Research and

Development.

In 2003, he started pursuing master degree in Master of Science in

Information Technology for Natural Resources Management, Faculty of

Mathematic and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University. The curriculum

content has taken much his current interests in GIS and Remote Sensing,

Modeling, and Information Technology especially in spatial based programming

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ABSTRACT

Wim Ikbal Nursal (2007). Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java). Under the supervision of Dr Lilik Budi Prasetyo, M.Sc and Ir. Idung Risdiyanto, M.Sc.

The synthesis of wildlife-habitat studies, multivariate habitat analysis, and wildlife mapping techniques is very promising to provide a basis for impact assessment and mitigation, conservation and monitoring of wildlife (Morrison et al., 1992). In contrast, case studies of the synthesis still have been rarely done in Indonesia. The need of it is obvious considering that Indonesia has a lot of protected areas. In this context, developing such GIS application which carrying the synthesis could be useful to support designing management plan in spatial basis. The case study in order to test the system performance is javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) in Gunung Salak considering to its status as a critically endangered and keystone species for Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park.

The GIS Application is developed by using iterative and incremental approach. The development has two phases, that is initial phase or requirement analysis and construction phase. In the initial phase, the intended system and its needed functionalities were determined, whereas in the construction phase the functionalities were further analyzed, designed, and finally implemented. The system was tested using the spatial data which represents habitat factor of javan gibbon and the performance of the system was examined.

The concerned system, namely SUITSTAT, was succesfully built. It is equipped with data preparation and habitat suitability model functionalities. Including in data preparation is basic geoprocessing, ecogeographical variable generation, and species distribution mapping. The habitat suitability model follows decision rules based method, specifically Simple Additive Weighting, which comprises of weight calculation based on presence data, standardization, and score calculation. The suitability habitat information is available in spatial and chart format. Based on system assessment, most of processes were performed well. Some drawbacks are existed which addressed for future development, such as refinement of dissolve algorithm and data preparation functionalities.

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Used Software for Application Development... 14

Table 2. System Component Matrix ... 23

Table 3. Spatial Features and Spatial Properties Relationship... 24

Table 4. Several Types of Analysis to Spatial Features... 28

Table 5. SUITSTAT’s User Interface ... 44

Table 6. The Nature of Geographic Distribution of Javan Gibbon in Mt. Salak Based on 29 Observation Points ... 64

Table 7. Principal Component Loadings and Weight for Each Spatial Variable ... 65

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Iterative and Incremental Approach (modified after Barroca et al.,

2000 in Zhao, 2002) ... 13

Figure 2. Theoretical Framework... 15

Figure 3. Data Preparation Work Flow ... 19

Figure 4. Organization Structure of GHSNP Based on the Decree of MoF No. 355/Menhut-II/2004... 22

Figure 5. Conceptual System ... 22

Figure 6. Illustration of Spatial Properties (Ecogeographical Variable) that Influencing Wildlife Response. Each Grid has Its Own Spatial Characteristic, such like Proximity (Distance to Road [represented by black line], River [represented by blue line]) and Content Arrangement (the Area of Landcover Contained In, Marked by x and y Letter) ... 24

Figure 7. Major Functionalities of the SUITSTAT... 26

Figure 8. Flowchart of Content Analysis ... 29

Figure 9. Flowchart of Proximity Analysis... 30

Figure 10. The Illustration of Neighboring Grid of a Point ... 31

Figure 11. Aggregation Analysis Method (Notes: Further Description is Available in the Text) ... 33

Figure 12. Flowchart of Ecogeographical Data Generation... 34

Figure 13. The Illustration of Visual Method (a) and Triangle Method (b). Visual Method Uses Observer Position (x, y), Compass Bearing (α) and Observer Distance to Species (d) to Determine Species Position. In Constrast, Triangle Method Only Needs Two Observers Positions and Compass Bearing of each Position to the Sign of Invisible Species (S). ... 35

Figure 14. Algorithm for Determining or Mapping Species Position... 36

Figure 15. The Illustration of Point Buffering Algorithm... 37

Figure 16. The Illustration of Dissolve Algorithm ... 38

Figure 17. Vector-based Gridding Algorithm... 39

Figure 18. Process Flow of Habitat Suitability Module... 40

Figure 19. Weighting Algorithm... 41

Figure 20. The Algorithm of Score Calculation ... 43

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Figure 22. The Flowchart of Point Buffer Utility ... 47

Figure 23. Flowchart of Dissolve Menu ... 48

Figure 24. Flowchart of Vector-based Gridding ... 49

Figure 25. Flowchart of Distribution Mapping Menu... 51

Figure 26. The Flowchart of Habitat Suitability Menu Execution... 53

Figure 27. Flowchart of Classification Menu ... 54

Figure 28. Species Positioning from Geographical Position Data... 55

Figure 29. Buffering Point Result ... 56

Figure 30. Vector Based Grid Conversion... 56

Figure 31. Dissolve Utility Result... 57

Figure 32. Successful extracting original data (a) with three subclasses into separated classes (a), (b), (c) subsequently using contain analysis and (e) and (f) using neighbor (proximity) analysis... 58

Figure 33. The Suitability Information: (a) Form of Information Summary and (b) Habitat Suitability Map... 59

Figure 34. Map Viewer of SUITSTAT ... 59

Figure 35. GUI for Categorization of Dataset, Chosing Spatial Properties Analysis Types, Presence Dataset Types, and Output Dataset of the Model Result ... 60

Figure 36. GUI for Giving and Matching and Abbreviation of Ecogeographical Variables... 61

Figure 37. GUI for Selecting and Modifying Constraint and Criteria, and Calculating Eeight ... 62

Figure 38. PCA Calculation Result... 62

Figure 39. GUI of Standardization... 63

Figure 40. GUI of Model Outcome and Histogram ... 63

Figure 41. Area of each Javan Gibbon Habitat Suitability in Mt. Salak (in km2)... 66

Figure 42. Map of Javan Gibbon Habitat Suitability in Mt. Salak ... 67

Figure 43. Attribute Information of Species Distribution Dataset... 68

Figure 44. Error Message in Point Creation ... 68

Figure 45. The Partial Grid Created in the Edge of Concerned Polygon... 69

Figure 46. Attribute Table of the Output File from Embedding Process... 70

Figure 47. The Vertices of Circular Polygon Produced from Buffering Utility .. 71

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Figure 49. Polygon Object Structure... 72

Figure 50. The Imperfect Solution of SUITSTAT’s Dissolve Utility ... 73

Figure 51. Degraded Forest in Kawah Ratu... 75

Figure 52. Primary Forest at Mt. Salak (Cangkuang) ... 76

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix 1. Javan Gibbon Distribution Data in Mt. Salak Used in the

Analysis... 88

Appendix 2. Habitat Suitability Algorithm... 89

Appendix 3. MapObjects SearchByDistance Method of Shape Object (ESRI, 2001)... 90

Appendix 4. MapObjects SearchShape Method of Shape and Layer Object (ESRI, 2001)... 91

Appendix 5. MapObjects SearchShape Constant ... 92

Appendix 6. Javan Gibbon Distribution Survey Map... 93

Appendix 7. Accessibility (road and track) in Mt. Salak... 94

Appendix 8. Forest Ecosystem (Elevation Based) in Mt. Salak ... 95

Appendix 9. Land Cover of Mt. Salak ... 96

Appendix 10. Slope in Mt. Salak ... 97

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I.

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background

Information technology is applied in many fields nowadays. In each field,

the utilization context would be different or unique. The relationship between

wildlife conservation and information is described henceforward, together with

rationale of strategic value of the case study.

1.1.1. Wildlife Conservation and Information

The importance and values of biodiversity has driven some peoples to find

out the way to conserve the remaining land in the earth, especially of that

containing high biodiversity. One well-known approach is through the

establishment of conservation area (Primack et al., 1998).

Wildlife information, constitutes of habitat and population aspects, is often

used as standard criteria to select the certain land to be assigned as conservation

areas. Some area is established as Wildlife Sanctuary (Suaka Margasatwa) based

on the uniqueness wildlife community within and/or its capability to support the

survival of this wildlife (Republik Indonesia, 1998). In an established park, such

as Gunung Halimun National Park (recently expanded and renamed as Gunung

Halimun-Salak National Park), it has been used to formulate action plan (LIPI et

al., 2003).

In the park management which primarily focused on keystone species

management approach, the accumulated information on wildlife-habitat

relationship probably the most important wildlife information to be considered

into management practices. Wildlife-habitat relationship is alleged by many

ecologists in providing scientific basis and framework for conservation area

management, formulating management plan and making decision (De La Ville et

al., 1998; Morrison et al., 1992). Although it has not been applied yet, every park

in Indonesia has to complementarily acquire this framework for determining

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A synthesis on wildlife-habitat relationship knowledge, multivariate habitat

analysis, with wildlife mapping techniques (which primarily done with certain

GIS software) is very promising method to produce efficient wildlife information

for management practices (Miller, 1994). These wildlife-habitat interactions

provide a consistent basis for impact assessment, mitigation, baseline,

conservation and monitoring studies (Morrison et al., 1992). Their utilization can

be seen in a loose or series of resources, such as in Capen (1981), Miller (1994),

De Leeuw et al. (2002), just to mentioned a few.

In contrast, case studies concerning to this synthesis still have been rarely

done in Indonesia. The need of it is obvious considering that Indonesia has a lot

of protected areas. In this context, developing such GIS application which

carrying this wildlife-habitat relationship could be useful to support designing

management plan in spatial basis.

1.1.2. Javan Gibbon and Mount Salak

This research took javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) in Mount (Mt.) Salak

as a case study or an assessment for the developed GIS application. The

conservation status of javan gibbon is critically endangered (Eudey and

MPSG2000, 2004). It means that this species will extinct in the immediate times

and require urgent actions to inhibit extinction process and promote its survival.

Reintroduction was arising for one option and hence need assessment to the

relatively large habitat, where Mt. Salak is included in the list (Supriatna et al.,

1994; LIPI et al., 2003). Besides having large natural areas, this area still has

been connected by a corridor to mountainous landscape of Mt Halimun and

commend as the extended area for Gunung Halimun National Park. Therefore,

the development of new park zonation is required upon Mt Salak.

1.2. Objective

The study covers two objectives. The first objective is to develop

standalone GIS application to support the users in generating predictive

information on habitat suitability map and the second objective is to produce

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II.

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Wildlife-Habitat Relationship

Wildlife habitat relationship is one subject under ecological studies that

being investigated since long time ago. It was pioneered by the naturalist in the

early 1900 and generates numerous concepts. Even the purpose and concepts

behind this study still are growing, the existing concepts are likely significant to

formulate solution over environmental (wildlife) crisis today (Morrison et al.,

1992). The most important concept is habitat selection. Before getting into this

topic and the others, some important terms will be briefed first.

2.1.1. Wildlife Habitat Definition

Habitat is simply defined as where the species lives (Odum, 1971). It

provides water, coverage, and food to supports their lives and activities, which

fashioned by the dynamic interaction between physical and biological factors

(Bailey, 1984). Morrison et al. (1992) give a clear-cut definition which sounds

more spatially based, that is an area with the combination of resources (like food,

cover, and water) and environmental conditions (temperature, precipitation,

presence or absence of predators and competitors) that promotes occupancy by

individuals of a given species (or population) and allows those individuals to

survive and reproduce. Additionally, they defined the high quality habitat is areas

that afford conditions necessary for relatively successful survival and reproduction

over relatively long periods when compared to other similar environments. In

short, high quality habitat is related to the rates of survival and reproduction,

vitality of the offspring, length of time the site remains suitable for occupancy.

2.1.2. Wildlife Habitat Selection

The knowledge of biotic and abiotic factors roles to the wildlife survival in

general are widely known from analytical biology studies. It is applied to

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scientific side, the questions to wildlife habitat relationship are not stopped but

continue to grow.

Habitat selection concept seems taking so much ecologists interest. The

concept which established over the theory of evolution and its evidences was

proposed in order to answer why and how the species or the population occupies a

certain space as their habitat which suitable for their survival (Morrison et al.,

1992). Several ideas emerged from habitat selection studies are briefly described

in the following:

• Animals somehow perceive the correct configuration of habitat required for their survival (Morrison et al., 1992).

• Different with ultimate factors among environmental gradients (such as food,

water, nutrients, etc.), proximate factors (physical appearance which give a

clue to ultimate factor) caused the release innate behavior that resulted in a

certain “settling pattern” (Hilden, 1965 in Morrison et al., 1992). This idea

formed a foundation to the subsequent analysis of habitat selection. Similar to

this idea, Bailey (1984) thought that some vertebrates respond to the life form

or physiognomy of their habitat, rather than to the presence of particular plant

species.

• Experimental study on deer mice by Wecker (1964) in Morrison et al. (1992) showed that patterns of habitat selection are genetically determined and

learning at an early age will enforce these patterns (preadaptation).

• Hutchinson (1957) proposed a new theory on species niche that caused a

substantial revolution of the niche and thus habitat selection concept. He

viewed niche in geometrical way and defined it as multidimensional hyper

volume defined by the sum of all the interactions of an organism and its

(abiotic and biotic) environment. This perspective caused the extensive use of

multivariate statistics in analyzing wildlife habitat.

• The first study using Hutchinson’s theory and multivariate analysis to avian habitat came from James (1971 in Morrison et al. 1992). She thought that

each species has a characteristic perceptual world. The species responds to its

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specific search images. A lot of studies with similar methodology were

emerged after this.

• Hutto (1985) in Morrison et al. (1992) thought that habitat selection could best

be viewed as a spatially hierarchical decision making process. At broadest

level of habitat selection, i.e. geographic scale, evolutionary process seems

plays role in species distribution, restricts the species to certain geographic

boundaries. At this scale, habitat selection is primarily innate. Within that

restricted range, the animal can explore alternatives and make choices based

on the cost and benefits associated with the use of each habitat, such as food

availability. At much lower range, the animal must chooses specific site

within certain part of habitat (which is called microhabitat). Inside this range,

the choices could be affected by mate availability, predators, and/or

competitors.

It is obvious that the structure of habitat will influence the habitat selection

of the species. Based on habitat selection concept, if the habitat variables and

their magnitude can be recognized of certain species (where they live at), their

distribution in space could be predicted, as long as the logical relationship

between variables and species survival are exist.

2.1.3. Wildlife Habitat Suitability Model

Shamberger and O’Neil (1986) in De La Ville et al. (1998) defined habitat

suitability model as a model that shows the ability of a habitat to provide life

requisites for certain species. The definition of habitat suitability model could be

defined semantically. A model is an abstraction or simplification of some part of

the real world system (Shenk and Franklin, 2001; Morrison et al., 1992). It is

actually a translation of real system into simpler representation of interest.

It is already mentioned earlier that suitable habitat is areas that afford

conditions necessary for relatively successful survival and reproduction over

relatively long periods when compared to other environments. Hence, habitat

suitability model can defined as a model that shows the affordability of habitat

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The general purpose of a model is used as a guide of management decisions

(Shenk and Franklin, 2001). In case of suitable habitat modeling, it could be used

to set up conservation priorities (Margules and Austin, 1994 in Guisan and

Zimmermann, 2000) and may yield biological insight to explain species

distribution and evaluate land activities.

At present, many algorithms have been developed to formulate habitat

suitability model. Any of these algorithms is used to determine the response

variable and estimating model coefficient (Guisan and Zimmermann, 2000). Most

of the available algorithm families in the present used statistical approach, and

some of them used mathematical and artificial intelligence (machine learning)

approach. The complete algorithm families can be seen in the Appendix 2.

2.2. Wildlife-Habitat Mapping

Wildlife-habitat mapping as a process to produce spatially represented

wildlife information. Eventually, it has been being a complementary method in

wildlife research and management. There are several reasons why spatial

information becomes a major, in contrast to the other type of information. First,

spatial perspective provides simple, but useful, framework for handling large

amounts of data (Fischer et al., 1996). For example, in a topographic map, we

could extract information on elevation, land cover, settlement distribution,

primary infrastructures, and so forth. Therefore, it is suitable for manager and

policy makers that often do not have time to digest all information, communicate

and focus to the important subjects (Miller, 1994). Secondly, most of wildlife

information holds geographical dimension. It is already a geographic

phenomenon (since it has been lying on geographic space) and interconnected

with the other geographic elements. And the third, by the capability of GIS, it is

possible to have almost complete picture of situation in the concerned place (by

linking all relevant geographic features in various types into one single frame,

known as overlay or superimposition). Hence, GIS is very useful tools for

studying wildlife that inherently influenced by numerous ecological elements in

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2.3. Spatial Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Mostly decision is made under many criterions (criteria), rarely depend on

single criterion. The term multi criteria decision making (analysis) is used to

explain the decision methodology which involve incommensurate criteria.

Based on Worral (1991) in Malczewski (1999), 80% of data used by

managers and decision makers is related geographically. Furthermore, spatial

decision is multi criteria in nature. Consequently, there is a need for utilizing

spatial multi criteria decision analysis that dealt with geographical data, which

previously used for aspatial problem.

Malczewski (1999) thought spatial multicriteria decision analysis as a

process that combines and transforms geographical data into resultant decision

through decision rules (multi criteria decision procedures). At least three

components should be considered to utilize multi criteria decision making, i.e.:

decision criteria, criteria’s weight, and decision procedures/rules. The following

subsection describes these components.

2.3.1. Criteria

Criteria are also referred as attributes. In spatially based decision making,

the attribute is represented by concerned map. This map is called as an evaluation

criteria map, attribute map, thematic map or data layer, which defined as a unique

geographical attribute of the alternative decisions that can be used to evaluate the

performance of the alternatives (Malczewski, 1999).

2.3.2. Constraints

Constraint is limitation imposed by nature or by human being that do not

permit certain actions to be taken (Keeney, 1980 in Malczewski, 1999). It is

important in determining the feasibility of the alternatives of decision. If decision

is made which failed to take account the constraints, then the decision will be

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2.3.3. Criteria Weighting

The purpose of criterion weighting is to express the importance of each

criterion relative to other criteria (Malczewski, 1999). In decision making, it is a

common that each criterion is incommensurate or each criterion has influence

level to decision result. There are some procedures to estimate weight, for

example: rating, ranking, pair wise comparison method, trade-off analysis method,

and so forth (Malczewski, 1999).

2.3.4. Decision Rules

A decision rule is a procedure that allows for ordering alternatives. It

integrates the data and information on alternatives and decision maker’s

preferences into an overall assessment of the alternatives (Malczewski, 1999).

There are numerous decision rules that can be used for solving the multi

criteria decision making problem. Simple additive weighting (SAW) methods are

the most often used techniques for tackling spatial attribute decision making. The

techniques are also referred to as weighted linear combination (WLC) or scoring

methods (Malczewski, 1999).

The following formula is the formal model of SAW method (Malczewski,

1999):

∑

=

i ij i

i w x

A (2.1)

where xij, is the score of the ithalternative with respect to the jth attribute, and w is

the normalized weight. The most preferred alternative is selected by identifying

the maximum value of Ai(i = 1, 2, 3… m number of attributes/criteria).

2.4. The Use of Principal Component Analysis in Ecological Studies

It is a nature that process and interaction of ecosystem involve many factors

(biotic and abiotic). These interactions sometimes synergic, which can be

strengthening or weakening, balancing or reinforcing, dynamically affect the

behavior, distribution, and abundance of an organism. Hence, understanding the

species response solely on the single variable or factor could be misleading. In

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However, it is remarkable of which after the niche theory was reformulated by

Hutchinson (1957), ecological research (especially in wildlife-habitat relationship

studies) concerns many variables (Morrison et al., 1992). One approach to

consider many variables simultaneously in explaining organism responses is

multivariate statistics.

According to McGarigal et al. (2000), Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

is the most well-understood and widely used ordination technique. They stated

that ordination essentially seeks to uncover a more fundamental set of factors that

account for the major patterns across all of the original variables. They realized

the principle behind using ordination in ecology is that much of the variability in a

multivariate ecological data set often is concentrated on relatively few dimension,

and that these major gradients are usually highly related to certain ecological or

environmental factor. The important characteristic of PCA in the following is

summarized after McGarigal et al. (2000):

• PCA assesses relationship within a single set of interdependent variables,

regardless any relationship they may have to variables outside the set.

• PCA does not attempt to define the relationship between a set of independent

variables and one or more dependent variables.

• Its main purpose is to condense information contained in a large number of original variables into smaller set of new composite dimensions, with a

minimum loss of information, where each dimension is defined by weighted

linear combination of the original variables (called principal components).

This linear combination represents gradients of maximum variation within the

data set.

PCA usually begins with standardize the raw data set (mean centering).

From this matrix, the correlation matrix (or variance-covariance matrix) is

calculated. After that, eigenvalues and eigenvector, the most important quantity

in PCA, are obtained through decomposing matrix and QR Algorithm technique

(Wikipedia, 2005).

According to Morrison et al. (1992), eigenvectors are best combinations of

correlated predictor variables that account for most of the variation in the response

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component is measured in eigenvalue. The weights of linear equation of each

principal component (PC) are actually these eigenvectors.

2.5. Javan Gibbon

A short review of javan gibbon is given below. It comprises of taxonomy

and morphology, social system, distribution, dietary and the pattern of spatial and

time utilization. This information is important for formulating the model.

2.5.1. Taxonomy and Morphology

According to Simpson (1945) in Napier (1972), the taxonomy of javan

gibbon is:

Species : Hylobates moloch Audebert 1798 Genus : Hylobates

Family : Hylobatidae Super-family : Hominoidea Sub-ordo : Anthropoidea Ordo : Primata

Class : Mammalia Sub phyllum : Vertebrata Phyllum : Chordata Kingdom : Animalia

Hylobatidae is a sub-group of primate which doesn’t have physical tail

which is common to other primates. They usually live in the top of forest layer.

They have unique morphological hinds, which the front hinds are longer than back

hinds. They fully depend on their front hinds for moving or ranging from tree to

tree, without reducing their rapidity in swinging and moving. This could indicate

that they already adapted to canopy and branches structure of trees.

Javan gibbon can be identified by its silvery-grey hairs. The top of the head

is black as well as its face. The eyebrow is similar to the other hair.

In Indonesia, the family Hylobatidae can be found in major islands, such as

Sumatera (H. syndactylus or siamang, H. agilis, andH. lar), Kalimantan (H. muelleri

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2.5.2. Social System

Javan gibbon has a monogamous and family group system. In one group,

usually 1-2 infants can be found. Sometimes sub-adult can be found in a group,

but it couldn’t stay longer but later excluded and establish new self-family group.

Pregnancy period of javan gibbon is about 197 – 210 days. The elapsed

time after one birth to the second is about 3-4 years. Generally, they could live

for 35 years.

2.5.3. Distribution

The latest information stated there are only 400 – 2000 javan gibbons left in

Java Island; therefore, it has been classified as critically endangered species in

1996 IUCN Red List and listed in Appendix I CITES (Eudey and MPSG2000,

2004). It is dispersed and only found in Java, especially in remnant and relatively

undisturbed mountain forest. As a top-arboreal, complete brachiated and

frugivorous monkey, it needs an evergreen primary forest to live (Napier and

Napier 1985, Napier and Napier 1967, Kappeler 1981, Kappeler 1984). There are

only eight sites that still serve as Javan gibbon’s effective habitat - with large

enough population and inter population genetic flow - out of 30 sites that

previously identified as their habitats in Java. Five of those sites located in West

Java, including Gunung Salak protection forest, Gunung Gede-Pangrango

National Park, Gunung Halimun National Park, Ujung Kulon National Park, and

Gunung Simpang Nature Reserve (Primack et al. 1998).

2.5.4. Dietary

Like the other hylobatids, they eat ripe fruits, bud or young leaves,

bud-flower or complete bud-flower and small creatures. Usually these supplies are

collected 10 m above the ground (Ellefson, 1967; Chivers, 1974; Gittins, 1979 in

Kappeler, 1984).

According to Prastyono (1999), about 43 species of gibbon’s diet plants is

identified from the total of 143 species in Cikaniki, Ciawitali, and Pasir Bivak

resort, Gunung Halimun National Park. The life forms (habitus) of these dietary

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2.5.5. The Pattern of Spatial and Temporal Utilization

Javan gibbon is living arboreal in trees and rarely come down to the ground.

According to Tobing (1999), javan gibbon frequently uses the height of about 20

-25 m above the ground, either in disturbed or undisturbed forest. The utilization

of space in 0 – 5 m of height was happened when there was a forest gap which

could not trespass through forest canopy.

Daily ranging can reach 1500 m. Tobing (1999) reffered to Chivers (1984)

and Kappeler (1984) stated that spatial usage type for daily activities is territorial.

The size of this territorial area is about 16 ha. They speculated if the destruction

happened over their area, small possibility for them to migrate into a new area.

The home range or territory area is believed to be defended through calling

mechanisms. Alarming bout is conducted by any individual when the intruder

(could be gibbon from other group, other primates, human, or predators such as

leopard, raptors, and so forth) came approaching their area.

They used about 70.4 % of their home range for their territory. The daily

range patterns every day was influenced by habitat and floristic season. The

family used the middle strata in the forest, a height of between 15-30 m. The top

layer height is about (> 30 m) and the lower (0-15 m) was rarely used (Ladjar,

1996).

Elevation is related to the gibbon distribution. Javan gibbon is found below

1600 m asl (above sea level) (Kappeler, 1984). They are rarely found in elevation

above 1500 m asl. The ecosystem on that elevation contains a little number food

tree species. Moss is very fine available that could obstruct javan gibbon to move.

Human pressure is believed to be a barrier or source of disturbance to javan

gibbon movement and habitat. Based on Tobing (1999), javan gibbon could

detect the human existence in 20 m and then produce an alert behavior.

The study of daily activity conducted in Cikaniki, Ciawitali and Pasir

Bivak TN Gunung Halimun revealed that the percentages of daily activity were

resting 39.1 %, feeding 30.3%, moving 24.1% and other social activity 6.5% in

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III.

METHODOLOGY

3.1. System Development Methodology

The description of system development method is illustrated in thi section,

including the brief explanation and information on software and hardware used to

develop the system.

3.1.1. System Development

The system, namely SUITSTAT, is developed by using modified

iterative-incremental approach. This approach focuses on the developing the functionality

of system (process-based), not only the activities or management plan to

accomplish the system development, such as in the system development life-cycle

(SDLC) or waterfall process (Fowler, 2005).

The development process has two phases, i.e. initial and construction phase.

The scheme of the development method can be seen in the figure below:

Figure 1. Iterative and Incremental Approach (modified after Barroca et al., 2000 in

Zhao, 2002) Increment #1

Basic Functionality Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration ...

Increment #1 Core Functionality

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration ... Increment #2 Add More Functionality

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration ...

Increment #3 Complete Functionality

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration ...

testing analysis design coding

• Requirement Analysis

• Habitat Suitability Concept & Methodology

System Requirement

in it ia l Ph a se

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Initial phase is distinguished by identifying the objectives and requirements

of the intended system. In this phase need analysis (describing current state and

identifying the necessity of the system), information and user analysis in

conducted. The requirement analysis is mostly formulated based on literature

(habitat suitability concepts) and national park document. From this analysis, the

rough description of the system is given as the solution.

The second phase is contruction phase. In this phase, the system is viewed

as a block of functionalities. In each functionality development, a mini SDLC

(analysis, design, coding, and testing) is conducted until it is finished or working.

This phase will produce the proposed conceptual system. It is expected when the

construction reach the last functionality, the application is completely developed.

3.1.2. Software

Microsoft Visual Basic Professional (VB6) is chosen as software development

(implementation) considers that VB6 is popular software for application

development over Microsoft Windows Operating System environment by its simple

computer language syntax, almost object-oriented and user-friendliness.

Additionally, many components and libraries such like MapObjects built for VB

platform. MapObjects is the main component used to develop SUITSTAT.

Software that is shown in the Table 1 is used to develop this application.

3.1.3. Hardware

The hardware used to develop the application is desktop PC with

specification: Processor Intel Pentium IV, 512MB RAM, and 64MB Graphic

Card.

Table 1. Used Software for Application Development

No Software Utility

1 Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Rapid Application Development tool, programming

language which all codes will be written and executed with.

2 MapObjects 2.1 Commercial object component from ESRI to make

map interfaces. Provides certain already-used functionalities that enable developers to make customized GIS application.

3 ESRI ArcView 3.x Commercial GIS application map viewer from ESRI.

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3.2. Javan Gibbon Habitat Suitability Model

The formulation of javan gibbon habitat suitability model is described even

the aim is to test SUITSTAT performance. Additionally, the required data, field

data collection, and the preparation of the data before processed by the system are

informed in the following subsection.

3.2.1. Model Formulation

In the geographic scale, the habitat can be analyzed simply based on its

major shaping-factor, which are physical and biological factors, and also human

factors due to their activities which are often causing the rapid changing on the

environment. Those factors almost can be represented into spatial data. By

means of spatial and statistical (numerical) analysis, the pattern of driving factors

of habitat selection can be identified. This theoretical framework is drawn in the

Figure 2.

Suitability model is estimated using GIS-based decision rules, i.e.: Simple

Additive Weighting (SAW) method. It considers habitat factors, such as biotic,

abiotic and human factor as decision criteria. Habitat factors are represented by

available spatial data, such as land cover, river/water body, roads, slopes,

elevation-based forest ecosystem. The model outcome (decision) is represented

by the score of correspond feature which reflects the suitability level (the higher

score, the higher suitability level).

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Figure 2. Theoretical Framework Human

Interaction Biological

factor

Wildlife Response

Physical factors

Spatial & statistical analysis,

decision rules

Wildlife habitat suitability Selected

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Almost of all variable are related to gibbon behavior and hence its survival.

These factors were selected through rationalizing knowledge specifically on javan

gibbon and generally on wildlife. Javan gibbon is a brachiated monkey which

primarily depends on the forest structure (Napier and Napier, 1985; Kappeler,

1984a). In Mt Salak, such forest structure that enabling gibbons to perform their

daily activity (ranging, feeding, and resting or sleeping) is satisfied by primary

lowland and submontane forest. Therefore, forest succession stage or maturity

(primary and secondary forest) and forest elevation based ecosystem are

considered as a cue to habitat suitability.

The existing of non-habitat (nonforested area) such as settlement, paddy

field, crops, bushes, and road/tracks gives influence to the health of habitat

which related with the concept of edge effect and fragmentation (Morrison et. al.,

1992; Primack et al., 1998). The influence to the species habitat correlates with

habitat distance to non-habitat area. These factors are also related with

detectability of javan gibbon to the intruders of their homerange or territory, as

observed by Tobing (1999).

As a territorial species, every group of javan gibbon moves inside a

relatively fixed area (homerange) to find resources. The movement is highly

relied on the continuance of the canopy. The canopy surface usually follows the

terrain. Even there has been no evidence revealing the difference of ranging

distance on the canopy above slopy and plain topography, topographic condition

commonly affects the movement of wildlife and probably javan gibbon.

Generally, the effort for accomplishing a route in steeper area is bigger than plain

area. Hence, slope factor is included in the model, which arbitrarily divided into

three slope classes, 0 – 15% (representing plain topography), 15 – 45%

(representing plain to steep terrain) and more than 45% (representing steep

terrain).

The existence of rivers or water body is vital for wildlife survival. Seeing

that javan gibbon rarely came down from top forest canopy, this factor seems

unimportant. However, this factor was included into the model consider to the

possible relationship of this factor to community structures in javan gibbon habitat

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The decision constraints are also considered in the model. The constraints

are considered due to the existence of a factor in the land entity that is not livable

for gibbon. Non-forested area (such as tea plantation, bushes, open land, and

settlement) and area on which trespassed by the road are considered as model

constraints. Since there is no information on edge-effect to javan gibbon habitat

structure, this factor is approximated from javan gibbon alert behavior. As

observed by Tobing (1999), javan gibbon could detect human existence in 20 m

(flash distance). Therefore, the area within the distance of 20 m from roads and

non-forested land are considered also as model constraints.

The occurrence of gibbon group is meant as proxy (indication) of suitable

habitat. The concerned habitat variable are measured according those gibbon

distribution (over 29 distinct groups) and analyze with Principal Component

Analysis (PCA). Considers that principal component loading value indicates the

contribution of a variable to variance explained by correspond principal

component (eigenvalues); Hence, the maximum of principal component loading

of the interpretable component suggest level of importance of variable in

determining suitable habitat. Subsequently, it is used to calculate weight of each

variable weight. Broken Stick Distribution is used to determine how many

components were interpretable (McGarigal et al., 2000).

The process of GIS-Based SAW Method was performed by SUITSTAT

system which adopts Malczewski’s (1999) procedure.

3.2.2. Required Data

The data that will be used as a test case of this application are:

1) Digital topographic map (topomap) of Mt Halimun Salak National Park (sheet

number: 1209-132, 1209-141, and 1209-114; scale 1:25.000). This map is the

special and newest version of topographical situation on Mt Halimun Salak

National Park, produced by the National Coordinator Agency on Survey and

Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL) consultant for Mt Halimun Salak National

Park Management. Landsat ETM+ year 2003 at this park was used to describe

the latest land cover condition. The other topographic features (such as road,

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These features will be further processed by this system to derive the ecological

geographic (ecogeographic) factor and to determine habitat suitability.

2) Javan gibbon distribution data in Mt Salak. The data were collected during

field survey and some data came from previous research (Djanubudiman et al.,

2004). This data was also used by this system to determine javan gibbon

habitat suitability.

3.2.3. Field Data Collection Method

Javan gibbon distribution data were collected by using triangle count and

direct count along the available track in the study area. This method is

appropriate to be applied on gibbon population counting and positioning (Rinaldi,

1992). This method is working based on the intersection between two

(imaginary) lines, which each line was created by observer position (measured by

GPS) and the measured compass bearing (azimuth) of observer to the source of

sound. These two points should be in a quite distant to prevent the occurrence of

parallel lines. After the species position was determined by drawing these lines

upon the map, the observer went to that position to verify the species existence.

Some record list in the tally sheet were marked, when the species was found.

3.2.4. Data Input Preparation

Data input preparation is meant to generate required dataset and transform

the data so that they are accessible for SUITSTAT. Some processes were

performed in ArcView 3.2 and some others were in SUITSTAT.

Elevation and slope classes dataset was generated from Digital Elevation

Model (DEM) dataset in ESRI Grid format, which previously generated by

surfacing the countur lines dataset. In turn, elevation classes together with

settlement and land cover dataset was processed to produce forest type (based on

succession stage) and forest ecosystem (based on elevation classes). These

processes were conducted in ArcView 3.2. Subsequently, the attribute of road,

slope classes, rivers, forest type and ecosystem dataset were adjusted before

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is intended to provide coding system which represents the available feature class

in the data.

The dataset which transformed by SUITSTAT were land cover and species

distribution dataset. Land cover dataset upon Mt. Salak area was transformed into

surface flat polygon and species distribution data was buffered. Surface flat

polygon dataset (vector-based grid) was made to represent the area of which its

suitability being investigated. Species distribution data was buffered in rectangle

shape which represents the homerange of javan gibbon (about 16.7 Ha based on

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Kappeler, 1984). The work flow of data preparation is shown in the Figure 3.

Figure 3. Data Preparation Work Flow

3.3. Time and Location

The study was started in September 2005 to December 2006. The field

survey was done in December 2005, January to February 2006 and May to June

2006 at several places in Mt. Salak, West Java. Most of time was spent to

develop this application in GIS/RS Laboratorium in MIT-Biotrop. at t r ibut e

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IV.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter consists of two major sections. The first section exposes the

result of SUITSTAT system development, javan gibbon field survey and habitat

suitability model. The last section is the discussion on the performance of the

system, javan gibbon distribution and habitat suitability analysis in Mt. Salak.

4.1. System Development Result

The development process of SUITSTAT is following iterative and

incremental approach, where system functionality is developed through iterative

process. The process of the development is described in the series order as it

could be easier to understand by the reader, that is requirement analysis, system

analysis and design, and system testing.

4.1.1. Requirement Analysis

The elements of system requirement are identified by analyzing the need,

data and information, and user of the system which described in the next

subsection. The synthesis of these elements is described in the last subsection

followed by the proposed (conceptual) system.

4.1.1.1. Need Analysis

National park management is managed by zonation system (Republic of

Indonesia, 1998). In developing park zonation, the information on wildlife

distribution and their habitat condition should be considered, including habitat

suitability.

In Mt. Halimun Salak National Park, the information of habitat suitability is

not available or provided at once. In addition, this issue is relatively new and its

study in the Indonesia is rare. In contrast with the developed country which the

methods and techniques has been evaluated. Because of that, park staff is not

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Nevertheless, the park is still facing management problem in handling data with

the current format, which is not so maximally useful for biodiversity analysis.

The spatial information on habitat suitability is information whose process

needs spatial data of species distribution and certain habitat factors. The park

collects species data is regularly. However, it is not collected through proper

method and stored into the approriate format which could be further processed. In

case of habitat suitability information, it has been always produced through

modeling process or using certain analysis method and complex procedures. It is

not practice sometimes for staff that involves with and solve the practical problem

to do complex procedures.

4.1.1.2. Data and Information Analysis

At least the information related with habitat suitability must answer the

questions:

• What suitability level, shows how suitable a locale has, based on considered

habitat factors.

• Where, contains information of relative position of a locale.

• How extent, shows how large (area) of each suitable level.

4.1.1.3. User Analysis

According to the Decree of Mof No.355/Menhut-II/2004, park staff could

be distinguished based on their task and function, as shown in the Figure 4. The

Assessor of Park Data Planning and Manager of Conservation and Protection

Supervision are park staff that most possibly has relation to species conservation

and park management. Consider to this, these staff is chosen as potential user of

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Figure 4. Organization Structure of GHSNP Based on the Decree of MoF No. 355/Menhut-II/2004

4.1.1.4. System Requirement Definition

Based on the need and information analysis, the intended system could be

simply described into three parts, namely input, process, and output. It is

illustrated by Figure 5.

Figure 5. Conceptual System

There are two sources of system input which are input that came from the

user and from storage. The input from user commonly has a purpose to choose an • Spatial data of species

distribution

• Habitat factors of concerned species

• Conservation area boundary

• Habitat suitability map with chart

• Spatial data of species distribution

• Geoprocessed data

• Geometric Operation (geoprocessing)

• Decision Rules

• Classification and summarization

Storage INPUT

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available option. The input that from storage is used for further processed. In

determining habitat suitability, some factors that usually considered are species

distribution, habitat factors of concerned species (e.g.: land cover, slope, rivers,

etc.), and the predicted region or area (such as protected area).

The system can be viewed as matrix of resources, products and activities. It

also highlights how the basic system activities of input, processing, output,

storage, and control are accomplished, and how the use of people, hardware, and

software resources to support system activities. Such matrix is called system

component matrix is given in the table below.

Table 2. System Component Matrix

Hardware Software Brainware Dataware

Input - ArcView (optional) Technician

Vector data format (polygon, line, point), including presence data,

habitat factors, and surface flat polygon

Processing

Minimal CPU 512MB RAM, 64MB VGA.

PCA Module, Score function, basic geo-processing function,

species distribution mapping module

Technician -

Output Computer

Display MapViewer, Chart

Technician, Manager

Suitability Information Dataset

Storage Disk Drive - Technician -

Control - - Manager -

It is important to determine rep

Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR WILDLIFE

A Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Sciences of Bogor Agricultural University

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CURRICULUM VITAE

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION ... 1

III. METHODOLOGY ... 13

V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ... 80

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

STAND-ALONE GIS APPLICATION FOR WILDLIFE

A Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Sciences of Bogor Agricultural University

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Stand-alone GIS Application for Wildlife Distribution and Habitat Suitability (Case Study: Javan Gibbon, Gunung Salak, West Java)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CURRICULUM VITAE

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION ... 1

III. METHODOLOGY ... 13

V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ... 80

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF APPENDICES

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background

1.1.2. Javan Gibbon and Mount Salak

1.2. Objective

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Wildlife-Habitat Relationship

2.1.1. Wildlife Habitat Definition

2.1.2. Wildlife Habitat Selection

2.1.3. Wildlife Habitat Suitability Model

2.2. Wildlife-Habitat Mapping

2.3. Spatial Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

2.3.1. Criteria

2.3.2. Constraints

2.3.4. Decision Rules

2.4. The Use of Principal Component Analysis in Ecological Studies

2.5. Javan Gibbon

2.5.2. Social System

2.5.3. Distribution

2.5.4. Dietary

2.5.5. The Pattern of Spatial and Temporal Utilization

METHODOLOGY

3.1. System Development Methodology

Basic Functionality Iteration 1

System Requirement

3.1.2. Software

3.1.3. Hardware

3.2. Javan Gibbon Habitat Suitability Model

3.2.1. Model Formulation

Interaction Biological

3.2.2. Required Data

3.2.3. Field Data Collection Method

3.2.4. Data Input Preparation

3.3. Time and Location

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1. System Development Result

4.1.1. Requirement Analysis

4.1.1.2. Data and Information Analysis

4.1.1.3. User Analysis

4.1.1.4. System Requirement Definition

Storage INPUT