The identification of geothermal with geographic information system and remote sensing in distric of Dolok Marawa

Abstract

The potency of the Indonesian geothermal resources able to supply 40% of world's demand on the geothermal resources. These resources are spread over 251 locations at 33 provinces having the total potential energy of 27.149 MW. One of these geothermal resources is Tinggi Raja located at Distric of Dolok Marawa, Simalungun Regency, North Sumatera 449385 E-473025 E and 324105 N-349545 N. This paper reports the study on mapping of the prospect of geothermal resource area by utilizing a remote sensing. The remote sensing consisted of Landsat 8 OLI which was published on February 8th 2015 and June 29th 2015 with Path 129 Row 58 as input data for ENVI 4.7 and ArcGIS 10 as mapping tools. Calculated land surface temperature (LST) was essential for mapping and calculating a geothermal resources. In this study, land surface temperature was used as the Thermal Infrared images obtained from the thermal infrared remote sensor. The highest achieved LST was 310.889587 K. The obtained LST distribution indicated the location of the geothermal potential.