Jasmee Jaafar

Universiti Teknologi MARA | UiTM · Department of Surveying Science and Geomatics

Mangroves are recognized as an ecosystem that grow and dominate the coastal areas of tropical and subtropical regions across the world. They not only provide ecological and socioeconomic support, but also play a pivotal role in offsetting an excess of carbon from the atmosphere. Despite the crucial roles provided by mangroves, the ecosystem has deg...

Mangroves are recognized as an ecosystem that grow and dominate the coastal areas of tropical and sub-tropical regions across the world. They not only provide ecological and socio-economic support, but also play a pivotal role in offsetting an excess of carbon from the atmosphere. Despite the crucial roles provided by mangroves, the ecosystem has d...

Background Heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) commonly co-exist, each, predisposing the other. AF may inflict haemodynamic disturbances, leading to reduced cardiac output and hence acute decompensation. Ultimately mortality risk is further increased. Identifying contributing factors is thus vital lest increasing risk of poor outcome....

In Malaysia, the existing of counting approach on the shipping container at depot is carried out by manual based system. This has made the efficiency of the method to be questioned which can be solved through automation. Under previous studies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is demonstrated for automatic counting of cars and trees. Therefore, the po...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the collaborative relationships development process in halal supply chain in Malaysia; of which the development process itself has received less attention from researchers. Numerous studies done concerning to the topic, whilst the Halal supply chain researchers hardly discuss on the collaborative relationship...

Protected Areas (PAs) are signißcantfor ecosystem and communities. Studies suggested that land use activities carried out by the community surrounding the PAs could increase the pressure to the latter. Thus, this study is to identify the land use activities carried out by them, and to ascertain its spatial impact towards KWR. This study chooses a R...

Tasek Bera (TB), one of the Protected Areas (PA) in Malaysia is an important site for natural eco system and community’s life. Previous studies suggested that the activities around the PAs gave a great impact to the latter. Thus, the implementation and management of the surrounding areas – Buffer Zones (BZ) are necessary to safeguard the PAs. This...

Estimating accurate above ground biomass (AGB) of oil palm plantation in Malaysia is crucial as it serves as an important indicator to assess the role of oil palm plantations in the global carbon cycle, particularly whether it serves as carbon source or sink. Research on oil palm AGB in Malaysia using remote sensing is almost insignificant and it h...

It is considerably challenging task to have a buffer zone (BZ) around protected areas (PA) in the urban area due to the conflict of interest between conservation and development. There is a need for ‘win-win situation’. This research is to identify the impact of a potential buffer zone on human and conservation of natural environment which derived...

With the advancement of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), locating land parcel physically on the ground is time consuming and costly. In order to facilitate locating land parcel on the ground easily, a base map is required as a guide in determining the land parcel location correlatively on the ground. Google Earth is a free applicati...

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) has recently become popular in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning. Similar to other evolutionary algorithms, the performance of BBO is affected when the parameter setting is not finely tuned. Therefore, the BBO parameters are optimized in this research particularly for application in UAV path planning....

Stakeholders play an important role towards the Conservation Reserve Buffer Zone. Their perspectives with regards to the concept and delineation criteria of BZ are important and may reduce the conflict of interest between livelihood of the people and conservation objectives of the CR. This paper describes the pilot findings of in-depth interviews w...

Mangroves are considered as unique and important ecosystems that occupy an intertidal zone of protected shorelines. The halophytic plants present in mangroves provide support not only for social economic needs but also for ecological roles which include carbon sinks. Above ground biomass (AGB) of mangroves was estimated in mangrove stands in Merbok...

Land use and land cover (LU/LC) classification of remotely sensed data is an important field of research by which it is commonly used in remote sensing applications. In this study, the different types of classification techniques were compared using different RGB band combinations for classifying several satellite images of some parts of Selangor,...

In spatial interpolation approaches, attribute data assumes continuous over space and spatially dependence. The surface air temperature is a collection of data, which are observed at discrete locations. Normally, spatial interpolation analysis applies to produce a continuous surface of this discrete data. There are a number of spatial interpolation...

Variation of air temperature from one place to another is caused by air temperature controls. In general, the most important control of air temperature is elevation. Another significant independent variable in estimating air temperature is the location of meteorological stations. Distance to coastline as well as land use type also contributes to si...

Establishment of vertical datum for land related surveying works using conventional levelling technique is a tedious process. With the advent of GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, determination of heights value for vertical datum in engineering works and alike seems feasible. In this study, two approaches in height determination using GPS...

Geoid modeling provides vital information in the determination of orthometric height using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology. Determination of precise geoid models is one of the main objectives of research around the globe. There are several approaches in the determination of geoid models. In this study, the KTH approach develope...

Urbanization is very closely linked to industrialization, commercialization or overall economic growth and development. This results in innumerable benefits of the quantity and quality of the urban environment and lifestyle but on the other hand contributes to unbounded development, urban sprawl, overcrowding and decreasing standard of living. Regu...

A 3D building model of man-made objects is an important tool for various applications such as urban planning, flood mapping and telecommunication. The reconstruction of 3D building models remains difficult. No universal algorithms exist that can extract all objects in an image successfully. At present, advances in remote sensing such as airborne Li...

Variation of air temperature from one place to another is caused by air temperature controls. In general, the most important control of air temperature is elevation. Another significant independent variable in estimating air temperature is the location of meteorological stations. Distance to coastline as well as land use type also contributes to si...

A major challenge for conservation reserve (CR) to stay intact is the ever-growing economic activities surrounding it which may pose harmful effects to the area. Worldwide, buffer zone (BZ) is said as one of mechanisms to safeguard the CR. Although its requirement is stated in various international and national policies and regulations, its delinea...

Malaysia is the second largest world producer of palm oil (Elaeis guineensis) with current planted area of plantations around 4.69 million ha. Oil palm contributes of about 75 percent of total planted area as compared to other agricultural tree crops. Since the oil palm plantations play an important roles in the economic and sources of income to Ma...

Interpretation of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) dataset towards detecting underground utility is a challenging task. The underground utility information such as location, depth and type serves as a reference prior to any construction project in order to avoid damage to the utility during excavation. However, the interpretation of GPR images is a t...

Local community gives impact to the Buffer Zones (BZ) and vice-versa. Their input in terms of criteria for delineation of BZ is important and may reduce the conflict of interest between livelihood of the people and conservation objectives of the Protected Areas (PA). This paper describes the preliminary findings of researchers' informal interviews...

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a terrain model consisting of elevation data and representing the bare earth surface. Meanwhile Digital Surface Model (DSM) describes earth surface that includes nonterrain features such as vegetations and buildings. The most tedious and time consuming method of generating DEM is to gather ground points by conventio...

Future developments in GIS (Geographic Information System) are centred on the Internet such as the 3D Geo-browser (Google Earth). In this study, a new generic approached in presenting GIS dataset using Google Earth will be introduced. My Map Portal Engine Search (MMPes) is developed as a tool that integrates spatial GIS dataset with Google Earth pl...

Urban growth always relates to the combination of natural increase in urban population and immigration of people to urban areas. Urbanization is very closely linked to industrialization, commercialization or overall economic growth and development. The process of urbanization exhibits a pattern in which the rate rises steeply in the early stages of...

Buffer zones are necessary to safeguard the protected areas by filtering out adverse influences and ensuring a healthy protected area. This study analyzed the stakeholders’ perceptions towards the potential implementation of buffer zones of the Tasek Bera wetland. The main objectives are, to determine the stakeholders’ understanding about the buffe...

Protected Areas must be planned and managed for ecosystem and communities. Studies have proven that land use activities surrounding the PAs could increase the pressure to the latter. This study is to identify the land use activities carried out by the communities around Krau Wildlife Reserves (KWR), and ascertain their threats and impacts. It's bas...

Air temperature element variation is affected by environmental factors. Factors that influence air temperature element variation are called air temperature control. There are numbers environmental factors of air temperature element control and this study was investigated environmental factors of elevation, station's location, coastline and land use...

Topographical map production is a tedious process, where it involves flight planning for the aerial photographic mission, preparation of ground control points, photogrammetric processes and cartographic activities. The task is time consuming, labour intensive and costly. With the vast development of the Klang Valley in Malaysia, customary revision...

Natural resources must be sustainably planned, managed and wisely utilized today and conserved for future generations to come. This will ensure stability for proper functioning of the ecosystem that will accrue to every sector of society. As one of the natural resources, protected areas have been defined as an attempt to uphold the cyclical relatio...

This preliminary study is a part of data collection for the development of the prediction model for the estimation of oil palm above ground biomass (AGB) and stem volume using remote sensing data. Oil palm agricultural tree crops have been extensively studied in the aspect of botanical and cultivation due to its socio-economic and commercial values...

Classification of Peninsular Malaysia was delineated by integrating in-situ temperature elements data and Geographical Information System (GIS) raster data. The principal component (PC) analysis was applied to long-term mean monthly temperature elements data for monsoon seasons. The first three principal components were chosen to be statistically s...

Deformation of engineering structures is often monitored in order to ensure that the structure is exhibiting safe deformation behaviour. The deformation of high-rise building can be monitored using geodetic surveys and geotechnical/structural measurements. Geodetic surveys include conventional (terrestrial) and satellite (Global Positioning System)...

Remotely sensed images and the thematic maps derived from such images are invaluable sources of information for GIS databases, in terms of providing spatial and temporal information about the nature of Earth surface materials and objects. One of the techniques that has emerged recently, and which has made a great impact on scientific community, is...

Remotely sensed images and the thematic maps derived from such images are invaluable sources of information for GIS databases, in terms of providing spatial and temporal information about the nature of Earth surface materials and objects. One of the techniques that has emerged recently, and which has made a great impact on scientific community, is...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nottingham, 2000.