As a parameter of researching plant groups and cluster analysis, leaf area index (LAI) is closely related to a variety of biological processes, such as transpiration, photosynthesis and respiration. Now LAI has become a key parameter in researching the eco-system. There are two ways to get the LAI data, one is from the ground-based measurement, the other way is based on retrieval from remote se...

In the past two decades, severe drought has been a recurrent problem in Iraq due part to climate change. Additionally, catastrophic drop discharge of Tigris and Euphrates rivers their tributaries aggravated situation Iraq, which was formerly one most water-rich nations Middle East. The Kurdistan Region (KRI) also conditions. This study analyzed Landsat time-series dataset from 1998 2021 determi...

To enhance the vegetation signal in remotely sensed data and provide an approximate measure of live green vegetation, a number of spectral vegetation indices have been developed to estimate biophysical parameters of vegetation. The sensitivity of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to the soil background and atmospheric effects has generated an increasing interest in the developme...

The degradation rate of Mediterranean steppes, especially in North Africa is 1% per year, and this considered a high  rate of degradation. This study conducted in 2014 in the south slope of the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, northeast Libya to quantify the vegetation recovery rate and assess selected Vegetation Indices (VIs) for mapping rangelands degradation status using remote sensing technology. Throug...

Soil organic carbon is important for sugarcane production as it plays a significant role in the development of soil aggregates and improvement any agricultural soil, hence increasing health. Increasing matter encourages aggregation slows rate breakdown. act nuclei stabilization with time. It improves attributes by content enhances physical properties that favor water infiltration retention. How...

the degradation rate of mediterranean steppes, especially in north africa is 1% per year, and this considered as high a rate of degradation. this study conducted in 2014 in the south slope of the al-jabal al-akhdar, northeast libya to quantify the vegetation recovery rate and assess selected vegetation indices (vis) for mapping rangelands degradation status using remote sensing technology. thro...

the use of remote sensing techniques as a suitable solution to estimate the levels of species diversity is of high importance for the sustainable management of forests. in order to investigate the potential of using sensor data from landsat 7 etm+ to estimate species diversity in the zagros forests, digital data related to the august 7, 2002 from forests in the qalajeh kermanshah province were ...