Geographic Information System (GIS) Application on Urban Forest Development in Bandung City

Bandung as the capital city of West Java has been facing with massive land conversion leading to reduce of green open space, which in fact affect to the quality of environment. This study will examine current urban forest policy-Bandung City Regulation No. 25/2009 and Spatial Plan of Bandung City, spatial distribution of urban forest, and also to develop method to prioritize location for urban forest design in Bandung using GIS. Method used in this study was overlay of several parameters; altitude, slope, land cover, climate, population density, and the distance of the protocol road. Parameters measured were analyzed using AHP. Based on Landsat 8 analysis, the factual urban forest areas only cover 338.94 hectares (less than 10% area of Bandung), and thus it is necessary to locate the appropriate location for a well-designed urban forest development. Result shows that there was three scores indicating the rank prioritization as the 652.65 hectares for the first rank, 7336.65 hectares for the second rank and lastly 8,733.61 hectares. It is concluded that the first priority to be developed for urban forest in Bandung was Mandalajati, Cibiru, and Ujung Berung that fall within the first rank.