Hindawi Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2017, Article ID 7515130, 12 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7515130 Research Article Land Use Land Cover Changes in Detection of Water Quality: A Study Based on Remote Sensing and Multivariate Statistics Ang Kean Hua Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to Ang Kean Hua;
[email protected] Received 6 December 2016; Revised 15 February 2017; Accepted 19 February 2017; Published 9 March 2017 Academic Editor: Evelyn O. Talbott Copyright © 2017 Ang Kean Hua. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Malacca River water quality is affected due to rapid urbanization development. The present study applied LULC changes towards water quality detection in Malacca River. The method uses LULC, PCA, CCA, HCA, NHCA, and ANOVA.PCA confirmed DS, EC, salinity,turbidity,TSS,DO,BOD,COD,As,Hg,Zn,Fe,E. coli, and total coliform. CCA confirmed 14 variables into two variates; first variate involves residential and industrial activities; and second variate involves agriculture, sewage treatment plant, and animal husbandry. HCA and NHCA emphasize that cluster 1 occurs in urban area with Hg, Fe, total coliform, and DO pollution; cluster 3 occurs in suburban area with salinity, EC, and DS; and cluster 2 occurs in rural area with salinity and EC. ANOVA between LULC and water quality data indicates that built-up area significantly polluted the water quality through E.