Grouping Potential Forest and Land Fires Areas in Sumatera Island Based on Hotspot Using CLARA Method

Abstract

Sumatera Island is one of the areas with the potential for forest and land fires in Indonesia. Sumatra Island has the largest oil palm plantation in Indonesia. The vast land area of oil palm plantations in Indonesia can increase the risk of fires due to land expansion by burning. In addition, the burning of peatlands in Sumatra can exacerbate the impact of forest and land fires. Forest and land fires on the island of Sumatra that occur every year can cause various negative impacts, indicating the need for countermeasures and prevention efforts to minimize the impact of forest and land fires. Hotspots can be used to detect fires in a region and help with prevention and countermeasures to reduce the impact of land and forest fires. Clustering the hotspot data allows one to obtain information on the presence of a fire in a given area as well as its potential status high, medium, or low. The clustering method used is the CLARA method. The CLARA method is a clustering method that breaks the dataset into groups. The advantages of the CLARA method are robust to outliers and effective for large data sets. The results of this research show that the CLARA method can be used for hotspot clustering with a silhouette coefficient of 0.53 in the use of 2 clusters. The analysis of the clustering results shows that cluster 1 is a cluster with low fire potential while cluster 2 is a cluster with high fire potential.