Soil erosion in watersheds, causing problems such as the loss of agricultural land productivity and reduce soil surface layer, endangering the life of reservoirs and water utilities, loss of soil fertility, increasing flood, threatening human food security, etc. The negative effects of soil erosion, watershed management operations to improve care. According to the extent of the watershed and th...

Typical routine surveys of soils are relatively expensive in terms of time and cost and due to the fact that maps have been traditionally developed and considering their dependence on experts' opinions, updating maps is time consuming and sometimes not economical as well. While soil digital mapping, using soil various models - the Landscape, leads to simplification of the complexity found in na...

  The purpose of current study is to investigate the effects of some of environmental factors on erosion value, to find the most important governing factors and the relation between erosion of working units and environmental factors (soil characteristics, slope, aspect, elevation, lithology, geomorphology faces and vegetation cover percentage). Working units map was prepared using geomorphology...

The estimate of the damage caused by the earthquake and other natural disasters in the first days after the occurrence of these events can provide a quick damages assessment and help to manage the crisis. Several methods are available to investigate the extent of earthquake’s damage. Optical remote sensing, photogrammetric methods (UAVs and LIDARs), radar interferometry (InSAR) and field observ...

One of the effective steps for the sustainable forest development is the recognition of habitat condition and silvicultural characteristics of the rare species. Accordingly, this study investigated the aut ecology of Sorbus lorestanica as a rare species of Zagros. For this purpose, the exclusive natural habitat of Sorbus lorestanica in Lorestan province (Gahar rood protected area) was selected ...

Gully erosion is the most important water erosion which causes land degradation and imbalance in lands. Land degradation, broken ecological balance of landscapes and sensitive condition of biological resources are among reasons of gully erosion study. This study performed with the goal of determining the topographical threshold of gully erosion and expansion and also predicting sensitive areas ...