Determining and Reevaluating Land Suitability of Tea Plantation Using Land Surface Temperature (LST) Data from Landsat 8 Imagery
摘要
Global climate change induced temperature increases have led to shifts in temperature patterns, impacting regions once considered suitable for tea cultivation. The rising temperatures, encompassing both Land Surface Temperature (LST) and air temperatures, have become important factors affecting the land suitability for tea production. This paper aims to understand the relationship between LST and the suitability and production of tea plantation areas in Cianjur and Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, over the past decades. The study utilized LST information from Landsat 8 imagery coupled with air temperature data to monitor and assess temperature-induced changes. The data was processed using Google Earth Engine (GEE) for fast and cost-effective assessment. The monthly average LST for tea canopies in Cianjur ranged from 27.40 to 31.47 °C, while in Bandung, it ranged from 20.70 to 27.54 °C. The higher LST in Cianjur, which exceeds the optimum temperature for tea, is related to low tea production and a change in land suitability from marginally suitable (S3) to not suitable (N). LST has the potential to be used as an important covariate for determining and reevaluating land suitability for tea plantations due to recent global climate change. LST processed using GEE, provides an effective method to assess changes in tea land suitability through the spatial distribution of temperature and temporal changes in tea plantation locations.