APPLICATION OF GIS FOR MAPPING OF MANAGEMENT ZONES OF MAE YOM NATIONAL PARK,LAMPANG AND PHRAE PROVINCE

摘要

The National Park consists of natural resources that highly contribute to the ecology. These environments make a pleasant place with its own unique to admire, which may be scenic, water fall, cave, mountain and floral including wildlife. However, without any appropriate management, the scenic of this will be fallen down and end finally. Our children will no longer see these anymore. Hence, any national park ought to be scrutinized, coupling with a good manage in order to keep the nature as long as it should be. The objective of this study is to develop GIS database for criteria classification of management zones of Mae Yom National Park in Lampang and Phrae provinces. The management zoning was developed using remote sensing data and GIS. The environmental factors used for analysis were slope, land use, elevation, distance from office, distance from community, distance from roads and distance from river/streams. The score of each management zone was then ranked regarding to the objectives of National Park Management. Using overlay technique, the areas then were classified into 5 management zones; service zone, recreation zone, primitive zone, strict nature reserve zone and recovery zone. The final map of management zone was then produced. The areas of management zone in Mae Yom National Park were 12.3%, 11.35%, 26.53%, 53.86% and 31.72% for service zone, recreation zone, primitive zone, strict nature reserve zone and recovery zone, respectively. The result will be the input of the managing of the Park, to preserve the natural resource and high degree of furtiliry, which enhance the completeness of the ecology in a sustainable form.