Mohd Faisal Abdul Khanan

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | UTM · Department of Geoinformatics

The increase in greenhouse gasses at the atmosphere is due to carbon dioxide that has affected to the climate change. Therefore, forest plays an essential role as carbon storage which absorbed the CO2 and release the oxygen (O2) to stabilize the earth ecosystem. This research aims to estimate Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) using combination of airborne...

The assessment of vulnerability to landslides is crucial for effective risk management, especially for infrastructure and human lives. This study aims to evaluate the vulnerability of landslides toward Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) assets in Bukit Antarabangsa, an area known for susceptibility to slope and landslide failures. The TNB assets include...

Extensive environmental pollution has affected the water resource, agricultural lands, economy and health of the inhabitants of Ahoada communities of the Niger Delta region, Nigeria. The main sources of pollution are oil spills emanating from pipeline interdiction and production-related spillages. Oil spills in the Niger Delta adversely affects the...

Malaysia experiences abundant rainfall, which can potentially lead to geo-hydrological disasters. Therefore, studying the effect of climate change on rainfall events is crucial. The General Circulation Model (GCM) is a well-accepted terrestrial-scale climate simulation approach widely employed by climate scientists and researchers worldwide. Howeve...

Landslides, which can cause fatalities, property damage, and economic disruption, are some of the most catastrophic natural disasters in hilly areas. Researchers have created landslide susceptibility maps to forecast rainfall-induced landslides, particularly in hill site developments. A physically based model is more familiar in rainfall-induced la...

Landslide is a part of natural natural disasters that causes fatalities to humans, destroys property and overwhelms the regional economy. Various landslide evaluation attempts have been utilized to determine the landslide susceptibility values. Machine learning (ML) has been used in numerous research areas including geotechnical disciplines to prod...

This systematic review article focuses on the geospatial issues of radicalism and extremism. The scholar has intensified the application of geospatial in radicalism and extremism study to understand better the causes, patterns, and trends of the radicalism and extremism incidents. The advanced geospatial approach provides more spatio-temporal infor...

Erosion and accretion assessment on mangrove-populated riverbanks is complicated as it requires a technique that can reduce the uncertainty of tree and water boundaries through the vegetation line as a geo-indicator. Hence, this study utilised mangrove vegetation line shift detection using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing te...

Background Mapping and monitoring the state of activity of landslides is crucial for effective landslide management and risk assessment. This study presents a novel approach using vegetation anomalies indicator (VAI) derived from high-resolution remotely sensed data for landslide state of activity mapping. The study focuses on the Kundasang area in...

Having detailed information and inventories about landslides is important for studying landslides. These inventories have been created for various purposes. However, detecting and mapping landslides in highly dense vegetated areas and evaluating their activity state is a major challenge due to various factors, such as the dense tree canopy, undulat...

This study uses fractal analysis to understand how oil spills are clustered at different scales in Ahoada communities of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The ArcGIS software was used in designing the hotspot map of the study area using Kernel density estimation. Results of spatial spill distribution from the Kernel density revealed that Bayelsa,...

This study investigates hydrocarbon pollution in the Ahoada community of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The study uses a geographic information system (GIS) for mapping oil spill hotspots in the region. The resistivity method was used to delineate the extent of hydrocarbon pollution to a depth of 19.7 m in the Ahoada area of the region. Three c...

This study sought to assess the influence of causal factors related to anthropogenic activities on landslide occurrence in Bukit Antarabangsa, a township northeast of Kuala Lumpur in Ampang Jaya Municipal Council. Anthropogenic factors were chosen based on the township's rapid growth, numerous landslide records and intensity of hillside development...

A transition program is a path for special needs student to prepare themselves from school-to-work nature. Apparently, in order for these students to be successful in life, a proper facilitation is needed via the correct transition program. One of the most established taxonomy pertaining to transition program is Kohler Taxonomy. The purpose of this...

Digital learning can finally help students in the teaching and learning process. It became a necessity due to the global crisis of the pandemic COVID-19. Lecturers have no choice but to provide excellent education online, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET). TVET face-to-face teaching is more practical than online teach...

Rapid changes in global shipping transportation introduce numerous technologies, among them known as “Automated Identification System (AIS)”. AIS is a transponder system that continuously transmits vessel information data between nearby vessels and shore stations via “Very High Frequency (VHF)” signals channels. In the recent past, a majority of th...

Landslide vulnerability is a crucial element that connects hazard and risk for a specific element-at-risk. Currently, landslide vulnerability study in Malaysia is limited and attention is given to susceptibility and hazard assessments. Ideally, vulnerability assessment should address various aspects of element-at-risk including physical, social, ec...

Most of time, landslide in Malaysia was triggered by heavy rainfall during monsoon season. Landslides disaster in Malaysia are managed by Public Work Department (JKR) via Slope Engineering Branch (CKC), Department of Mineral and Geosciences (JMG), and Malaysian Space Agency (Agensi Angkasa Malaysia). JKR was critically engaged in slope remediation...

Landslide activity identification is critical for landslide inventory mapping. A detailed landslide inventory map is highly required for various purposes such as landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk assessments. This paper proposes a novel approach based on vegetation anomalies indicator (VAI) and applying machine learning method namely suppo...

This paper introduced a novel method of landslide activity mapping using vegetation anomalies indicators (VAIs) obtained from high resolution remotely sensed data. The study area was located in a tectonically active area of Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia. High resolution remotely sensed data were used to assist manual landslide inventory process and pr...

Landslide is a destructive natural hazard that causes severe property loss and loss of lives. Numerous researchers have developed landslide susceptibility maps in order to forecast its occurrence, particularly in hill-site development. Various quantitative approaches are used in landslide susceptibility map production, which can be classified into...

Estimating surface elevation changes in mangrove forests requires a technique to filterthe mangrove canopy and quantify the changes underneath. Hence, this study estimates surfaceelevation changes underneath the mangrove canopy through vegetation filtering and Difference ofDEM (DoD) techniques using two epochs of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data...

Global sea level is expected to rise consistently in the future, causing severe damage to the coastal areas and threatening nearby populations. Malaysian coast has numerous low-lying areas, which are at risk of inundation resulting from the increment of sea level, particularly in Kelantan coast. In this study, the potential vulnerability impact of...

Landslide is one of the most destructive natural hazards that cause severe property loss and human life every year. Numerous researchers develop landslide susceptibility maps to forecast the occurrence of landslides. A physically-based model generally adopts the deterministic approach frequently used to assess landslide susceptibility in geotechnic...

According to the United Nations (UN) World Risk Index 2020, Malaysia is at high risk of natural catastrophes and is highly exposed to them, but has a low vulnerability to them. This is due to Malaysia's geographical location at the edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which makes it relatively secure from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Large-scal...

Over the years, pipelines have been the most economic medium for transporting crude oil to production and distribution facilities in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. However, damages to the pipelines in this area by interdiction have hampered the continuous flow of crude oil to the facilities. Consequently, the revenue of the government dwindles, a...

The future model of riverbank erosion is essential to predict the impacts on affected areas due to the phenomenon of riverbank erosion. However, how close the model is to the exact location depends on the historical assessment and dynamic factor, including the direction of erosion, the common area, and the average distance. This study aims to predi...

An area that located in Kundasang which in Ranau district in Sabah, Malaysia that lies along the bank of Kundasang valley was chosen for comparing the reliability of frequency ratio (FR) and weight of evidence (WoE) methods for landslide activity probability mapping by using related vegetation anomalies indicator. The locations of 47 and 189 of act...

Coastal vulnerability Index (CVI), is one of the predictive approaches to coastal classification by incorporating various coastal variables. This approach is favoured in the coastal investigation as it simplifies a number of complex parameters. However, it comes greatly as to why such assessment is developed in the first place; a) to facilitate coa...

Population explosion in the city of Johor Bahru has led to traffic congestions, which hitherto to that there were better movements and flow of vehicles in and around the city. Road transportation in particular has played a gargantuan role in creating and maintaining easy and quick access to various destinations. Increases in the number of vehicle i...

Tourism industry has played a vital role in the economic development of Malaysia by driving influx of people, capital and commodities into a potentially wealthy country. Tourism also contributed to a foreign exchange earning of most South East Asian countries including Malaysia. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the tourist movemen...

The propensity of Geographic information systems (GIS) as a modelling tool for problems solving and spatial data analysis is remarkable and has been widely used in recent times. GIS applications has been utilized by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) in solving numerous problems. However, there are other units within the TNB where GIS can be extended and...

The effects of oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused unending menace to the quality of drinking water in most wells and boreholes of the area as most of the wells are shallow and are susceptible to contamination due to the nature of its Geology. The aim of this paper is to develop a database on how oil spills affects water quality which is one o...

Evaluating water level changes at intertidal zones is complicated because of dynamic tidal inundation. However, water level changes during different tidal phases could be evaluated using a digital surface model (DSM) captured by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with higher vertical accuracy provided by a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Imag...

Transporting crude oil across a long distance and in a difficult terrain has been a nightmare for the multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria due to the incessant pipelines attacks by the Niger Delta militant groups. Pipelines has over the years become the most convenient and economic medium for transporting crude...

Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has been very effectively used in collecting terrain information over different scales of area. Inevitably, filtering the non-ground returns is the major step of digital terrain model (DTM) generation and this step poses the greatest challenge especially for tropical forest environment which consists of...

This paper presents an introductory synthesis for mapping potential habitats of arthropod vectors responsible for animal trypanosomiasis diseases in Northern Nigeria, where there is high production of livestock. Animal trypanosomiasis is considered an arthropod-borne viral disease which is endemic in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa and particula...

The application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and election is a study that stresses geospatial aspects which gives support to election boundaries, election information management system along with GIS analysis in election boundaries. This article, as a concept, explains the role and function of GIS and geopolitics as an introduction to exa...

In Malaysia, issues related to disaster management are always given attention in society and by the responsible parties. However, in general, citizen do not think of the consequential impact of disaster due to less of knowledge regarding the early phase in disaster management. Therefore, citizen in those areas will be more vulnerable to landslide a...

Vulnerability identifies the element-at-risk as well as the evaluation of their relationships with the hazard. The relationships relate the landslide potential damages over a specific element-at-risk. Vulnerability can be defined as the degree of loss to a given element-at-risk or set of elements at risk resulting from the occurrence of a natural p...

Remote sensing has been widely used for landslide inventory mapping and monitoring. Landslide activity is one of the important parameters for landslide inventory and it can be strongly related to vegetation anomalies. Previous studies have shown that remotely sensed data can be used to obtain detailed vegetation characteristics at various scales an...

Spatio-temporal analysis of Kilim River using Very High-Resolution (VHR) satellite image between the years of 2005 and 2012 are vital to assess river morphological changes and erosion detection over the specific time duration. Therefore, this study utilizes remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) capabilities to identify the channe...

This paper reviews an application of multi-resolution remote sensing data in landslide activity inventory mapping. Landslide activity is an important component for landslide study. On that basis, remote sensing technology become a standard method in getting and deriving the information related to landslide events. The capability of remote sensing t...

Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) is essential in planning and management activities especially for conserving eco-environment, soil and vegetation research as well as urban planning. Higher resolution imagery and accuracy of LULC for monitoring ecosystem survival are preferred especially when it takes into account environmental issues. Langkawi had faced...

In this study, the particulate matter with diameter less than 10 micrometers (PM10) is being observed. Other factors that influenced the pollutant dispersion are also being studied prior to identification of their relationship. The aim of this study is to identify the trend of PM10 concentrations in the Southern Peninsular of Malaysia during the pe...

Riverbank erosion is a serious environmental issue which urges government to take appropriate action to solve this problem. Kilim River, Langkawi Geopark which is located at the northern part in Peninsular Malaysia is now under the threat of critical reduction caused by intensification of tourism activities. The purpose of this study is to assess r...

Light Detection and Ranging or LiDAR data is a data source for deriving digital terrain model while Digital Elevation Model or DEM is usable within Geographical Information System or GIS. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of LiDAR derived DEM generated based on different interpolation methods and slope classes. Initially, the study...

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer-Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) are freely available Digital Elevation Model (DEM) datasets for environmental modeling and studies. The quality of spatial resolution...

Geomatic represents a branch of engineering that comprises the area of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology, field surveying, cartography, geodesy, photogrammetry, hydrography and cadastral studies. The current Geomatic degree administered by the Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate (FGRE) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)...

The elements of a tour package are the sequence of attractions by tourists, arrival time and duration for each attraction. Each stakeholders of a tour package including tourists, attraction managers and tour operators have their issues in regards to tour package design such as tour scheduling, activity planning and market planning issues. A persona...

Wayfinding is important and should be considered by park managers when allocating resources and facilities to aid tourists' navigation. The aim of this Chapter is to discuss influence of individual differences such as age and gender towards the wayfinding decision-making process of tourists and their consequent physical movement effects. A case stu...

Wayfinding is an important aspect that should be considered by tourist park managers when allocating resources and facilities to aid tourists navigating their way through a park. This paper discusses the influence of individual differences such as age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the environment towards the wayfinding decision making...