Water plays a vital role in the development of activities in an area. The surface water resources are inadequate to fulfill the water demand. Productivity through groundwater is quite high as compared to surface water, but groundwater resources have not yet been properly exploited. Keeping this view, the present study attempts to select and delineate various groundwater potential zones for the ...

introduction urmia lake in the northwestern corner of iran is one of the largest permanent hyper saline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the middle east. it is extended as much as 140 km from north to south and is as wide as 85 km east to west during high water periods. qualitative and quantitative degradation of water resources is one of the major challenges in the way of sustainable...

Villages within the Luki Biosphere Reserve and surrounding cities have undergone rapid demographic growth urbanization that impacted reserve’s natural landscape. However, no study has focused on spatiotemporal analysis of its land use/land cover. The present research aims at providing a comprehensive cover change in from year 1987 to 2020, predict future for 2038. Landsat images were classified...

A fundamental premise of landscape ecology is that finer-scaled local ecological integrity is directly influenced by larger-scaled land use patterns. Therefore, characterizing landscape patterns that are mapped from satellite imagery may provide valuable covariate information about average integrity “on the ground”. This conjecture was evaluated in Pennsylvania for 102 watersheds where land cov...

digital elevation model (dem) is increasingly used these days as an effective tool to extract elevation data in quantitative environmental and land management studies. the improvement of sensors and land resource satellites has made it possible to generate dem from remotely sensed data. dems which are produced from these data are applied not only in the two dimensional (2d) but also in the thre...

Estimation of plant dry matter to management of rangelands fast as well as high accuracy is important for managers. Research aims to compare Plant Dry Matter Productivity (PDMP) values estimated by Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from satellite images BKA, KVA according to different levels of satellite image processing, for AL-Sweeda Badia (Syria), during the April, July o...

Abstract Changes in land surface reflectance measured by remote sensing data can be useful climate change studies. This study attempts to Evaluation of the relationship between Snow cover index and Land temperature for used Normalized snow (S3), Surface Temperature (LST), Sulaymaniyah city, northeastern Iraq. Data from Landsat5 TM Landsat8 OLI images were detect during period years 1987, 1999, ...