Time and Location Data Sources

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III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1. Time and Location

The research would require six months, it had started from December 2004 to May 2005, from problem identification, finding related references to writing research proposal. It remains the processing, analyzing data and discussing the result. The study area had been carried out place in Sukabumi province, and only two districts will be chosen as the unit of sub-district: Ciemas and Ciracap. Nature Preserve Cagar Alam Cibanteng and Wildlife Reserve Suaka Margasatwa Citepuh are inside both two subdistrict. These conservation areas will be study area. The ecosystem inside, there are low land forest and sub-mountain forest, and bounded by Indonesia Ocean, so that coastal ecosystem included. The area is assumed that no organized illegal logging in large scale, only community in two districts and surrounding forest interact with the forest condition. The location is about 120 km far from Province Capital City of Sukabumi and about 240 km from Jakarta. Geographically, the both districts area is about 0 – 1000 m from sea level BPS 2000, bounded by longitudes 106 o 20 - 106 o 40 and latitudes 7 o 05 - 7 o 30. The area of Ciemas Subdistrict is about 26,696 ha and Ciracap Subdistrict about 22,237.44 ha BPS 1996 The borders of that area are: 1. Northern part is adjacent to Pelabuhan Ratu and Lengkong Subdistrict. 2. West part is adjacent to Indonesia Ocean. 3. South part is adjacent to Indonesia Ocean. 4. East part is adjacent to Surade and Jampang Kulon Subdistrict. In this research, the spatial analysis processing for both subdistricts are treated as the administration unit, but Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve and Cibanteng Natural Reserve had been treated as a study area and combined into one focus area. Map of the study area can be seen in Figure 3.1 and more detail in Appendix I Figure 3.1. Study area, is included Ciemas and Ciracap Subdistrict of Sukabumi Province

3.2. Data Sources

Data required to support this research, included: 1. Satellite imagery, from data Landsat TM with series data multi-date, covering Districts of Ciemas and Ciracap. The pathrow image is 12265, acquisition date Nov. 9 th , 1990, July 28 th , 1997, received from PPLH Pusat Penelitian Lingkungan Hidup Environmental Research Center IPB Institut Pertanian Bogor Bogor Agricultural University, 17 18 and May,12 th 2001 downloaded from GLCF Global Land Cover Facility http:glcf.umiacs.umd.eduindex.shtml 2. Topographic Map is obtained from SRTM Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission format and downloaded from GLCF Global Land Cover Facility http:glcf.umiacs.umd.eduindex.shtml with acquisition data 2000 3. Digital Map of Village, Sub-district, was received from PPLH-IPB, in vector or shp format 4. Digital Map of Nature Preserve Cagar Alam Cibanteng and Wildlife Reserve Suaka Margasatwa Citepuh boundary, was received from Baplan Badan Planologi Forestry Planning Agency Ministry of Forestry. 5. Demographic and socio-economic data, which is collected from BPS Badan Pusat Statistik Bureau of Statistical Center Sukabumi Province and Head Office Jakarta.

3.3. Supporting ToolsProgram