Waters Quality Assessment on Physical-Chemical
Parameters Using Remote Sensing Technologies:
Criteria for Total Suspended Solids and Waters
Transparency
Wenang Anurogo
1
, Gayatri
1.1
, Muhammad Fauzi
1.2
, Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis
1.3
,
Muhammad Ghazali
1.4
{wenang@polibatam.ac.id
1*
, Gayatri@gmail.com
1.1
, Muhammad.Fauzi@gmail.com
1.2
,
zainuddinlubis@polibatam.ac.id
1.3
, m.ghazali@polibatam.ac.id
1.4
}
Geomatics Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Batam, Batam 29461, Indonesia
1
Abstract. Waters territory is an area that has a large enough natural resource potential.
This region has undergone many changes in function to be able to provide benefits and a
large contribution in improving the community's economy, but economic activities that
convert aquatic land into industrial areas, tourism, and settlements have caused a fairly
severe deterioration in waters quality. Some parameters determining the quality of waters
include Total Suspended Solid (TSS), and Water Transparency. The development of
remote sensing is increasingly rapid making this technology more effectively used for
wide coverage areas. This research aims to analyze the concentration level of TSS
distribution and waters transparency by using remote sensing data. The results of data
processing showed the range of suspended solids in the research area ranged from 9,706
to 16,193 mg /L, and the range of waters transparency is from 3.6536-4.8278 m. The
results of the waters quality index processing data from this research based on parameters
used are classified into 3 classes; high waters quality, moderate waters quality, and low
waters quality. Waters quality in this research which has low waters quality and moderate
waters quality is around the island, while most of the results have high waters quality.
Keywords: Total Suspended Solid, Water Transparency, Water Quality
1. Introduction
Waters pollution is defined as the entry or inclusion of living things, substances, energy or
other components into waters by human activities (Duan & Takara, 2019) so that the quality
of waters drops to a certain level that causes waters to no longer function in accordance with
its designation (Schweitzer & Noblet, 2018; El-Zeiny & El-Kafrawy, 2017). Polluted waters
can be measured based on physical parameters and chemical parameters. Physical parameters
usually include color, odor, turbidity, and taste. While chemical parameters include pH,
temperature, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solid (TSS), Total
ICAE 2022, October 05, Batam, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.5-10-2022.2329739