Application for Geographic Information Systems To study of off-season rice farming Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

This study is to applied the Geographic Information Systems to analysis the off-season rice farming in Chiang Mai Province by using the Landsat 5 satellite image Path 131 Row 46 and Path 131 Row 131 and Path 131 Row 48 of year 2005 and 2007 Band 3, 4 and 5 to study the area and distribution of off-season rice farming. The factors that were used in this analysis are landuse, small, medium and large irrigation development project. The result found that in year 2005 Chaing Mai province has area of off-season rice about 68,412 Rai, the most off-season rice area was in Doi Saket district (13,485 Rai) and the most distribution area was in San Sai district (337 areas). In year 2008 found that the distribution of off-season rice farming in Chaing Mai province was less than year 2005 but the area of planting was more than year 2008 (Total 100,866 Rai), The most off-season rice area was in San Kamphaeng district (32,099 Rai) and the most distribution area was in San Sai district (126 areas).