Mapping Wetland Degradation in the Iraqi Marshlands for the period 1985-2000 from Landsat Satellite Imagery
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT) - Year 2018, Vol 12, Issue 6
Abstract
Natural ecosystems of wetlands and lakes had experienced a great destruction by human activities in all the regions of the world. This paper demonstrated the application of remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Mesopotamianwetland in the southern Iraqi for the purpose of monitoring the environmental change induced by severe human activities. Using open source available satellite imagery from Landsat achieve in United State Geological Survey (SUGS). Supervised classification, unsupervised classification techniques and maximum likelihood algorithm were used to produce maps to detect the changes that had occurred between 1985 and 2000(15 years). The study revealed that land cover decreased by 85.37%, desert increased by 46.32%, deep water dropped to only 2.31% and shallow water disappeared completely.
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Muhammad Ali Bukar,1, Dr Wakil Mala Bukar2
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