Oil palm and rubber plantations extend over large areas and encompass heterogeneous site conditions. In periods of high rainfall, plants in valleys and at riparian sites are more prone to flooding than plants at elevated topographic positions. We asked to what extent topographic position and flooding affect oil palm and rubber tree water use patterns and thereby influence spatial and temporal h...

This paper presents work on developing a software system for predicting crop yield from climate and plantation data. At the core of this system is a method for unsupervised partitioning of data for finding spatio-temporal patterns in climate data using kernel methods which offer strength to deal with complex data. For this purpose, a robust weighted kernel k-means algorithm incorporating spatia...

An experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sensor has been designed and developed at Multimedia University, Malaysia. This airborne system is an inexpensive C-band, single polarisation, linear FM airborne radar sensor. The system will be used for monitoring and management of earth resources such as paddy fields, oil palm plantation and soil surface. A series of...

PT. Socfindo Indonesia Seunagan Plantation is a company that produces palm oil and kernel (PKO). This observation aims to determine the parameters of free fatty acids in Plantation. Is it within quality control limits based on Xbar Rbar charts, as well investigations into causes improving with Free Fatty Acid (FFA) parameters. Based results Crude Palm Oil (CPO) chart, number samples for acid le...

Malaysia is one of the largest palm oil-producing countries in world. Located Southeast Asia region, this country also known as mega biodiversity-rich which contains numerous species. In study, arthropods were sampled using sticky traps at three sites within an oil dominated landscape. We examined how vegetation structure affects arthropod community distribution plantation. The number species w...

In Malaysia, there are plentiful of palm biomass but not always these resources are fully utilised. In the perspective of biomass industry owner, there are three factors that affect the business decision, (i) constant and good quality supplies, (ii) process efficiency, (iii) market demand and price. The strategy considerations that respond to these factors are based on other players’ competitio...