Assessing the potential of water reservoir in Tanah Merah, Kelantan using gis and remote sensing

Natural watered resources in Malaysia are well-endowed in abundance, which means many catchment areas can be used as storage or reservoirs. Environmental factors cause higher demand for watered users & supply. Many reservoir establishments ensure a dependable & sustainable watered supply for the next generation. This studied aims to find the potential watered reservoirs in Tanah Merah, Kelantan by used GIS & remote sensing by used ArcGIS 10.8 software. The objective of this research was to determine the environmental factors for identifying water reservoirs in Tanah Merah, Kelantan & to assess the potential of watered reservoirs in Tanah Merah, Kelantan. The data would process used Landsat-9 & analyzed in four locations Bukit Bunga, Bukit Panau, Kemahang also Gual Lipor. The main criteria selected for this research are slope, land use, river, river distance & elevation extracted from the Digital Elevation Model. The Weighted Overlay (WO) used to scale parameters for decision-making. From the analysis, could been identified had three locations or areas found that have a high potential for new water reservoirs. Therefore, it could been concluded that Weighted Overlay (WO) was a useful tool for analyze watered reservoir site selection in the studied area using ArcGIS.