Extended abstract 1- Introduction Wind erosion as an “environmental threat” has caused serious problems in the world. Identifying and evaluating areas affected by wind erosion can be an important tool for managers and planners in the sustainable development of different areas.  nowadays there are various methods in the world for zoning lands affected by wind erosion. One of the most important...

Introduction: Having accurate and up-to-date information on the status of land use and land cover change is a key point to protecting natural resources, sustainable agriculture management and urban development. Preparing the land cover and land use maps with traditional methods is usually time and cost consuming. Nowadays satellite imagery provides the possibility to prepare these maps in less ...

Flood zonation mapping is one of the priorities for the soil and water management, which Remote Sensing (RS) capabilities are very applicable to this issue. The main objective of this research was study of accuracy of the Object oriented and Pixel based methods for flood zonation mapping in the Taleghan River basin. Therefore, the Sentinel 2A satellite image of the study area classified using s...

the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding and the effect of noticing, explicit focus on form on linguistic accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 86 iranian pre-intermediate efl learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering ket as the homogeneity test. these learners were pretested throug...

Introduction Land use reflects the interactive characteristics of humans and the environment and describes how human exploitation works for one or more targets on the ground. Land use is usually defined on the basis of human use of the land, with an emphasis on the functional role of land in economic activities. Land use, which is associated with human activity, is undergoing change over time....

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...