although typically small in terms of their spatial footprint, landslide hazards are relativelyfrequent in northern iran. we assess landslide susceptibility for the nearly 20.000 km2 large study area of the urmia lake basin which is dominated by agricultural land use but includes the major settlements areas of the east azerbaijan province, iran. landslide factors are established in form of gis d...

Groundwater is an important factor of slope stability, and 90% of slope failures are related to the influence of groundwater. In the past, free surface calculations and the prediction of water inflow were based on Darcy's law. However, Darcy's law for steady fluid flow is a special case of non-Darcy flow, and many types of non-Darcy flows occur in practical engineering applications. In this pap...

in order to sustainable use of rangelands, it is necessary to recognize water, soil, and vegetation cover and analyze their relationships. physical and chemical properties of soil are effective in distribution of plant species in local area. to determine the effects of some soil properties on species distribution of eurotia ceratoides and stipa barbata in baghedar summer region of bafgh, three ...

Environmental observation applications are designed for monitoring phenomena using heterogeneous sensor data types and for providing derived and often integrated information. To effectively handle such a large variety of different sensors, both in scale and type and data volume, we propose a geosensor abstraction for large-scale geosensor networks. Our SGSA(Slope Grid for Sensor Data Abstractio...

in practice, foundations are settled on the soft layers of soil, so the ground must be designed as well as the structure. wave propagation and hysteresis damping of soil layers may alter the seismic response of flexible-base design in comparison to controversial fixed-base. lots of uncertainties about this issue, necessitate most of seismic design standards including iranian standard no. 2800 t...