Detecting land use changes affected by human activities using remote sensing (Case study: Karkheh River Basin)
Saeid Maddah1 , Saeed Karimi2 , Hadi Rezai2 and Jabbar Khaledi2
1
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur,
UM
Malaysia
2
Faculty of Environment,
University of Tehran,
Tehran,
Iran
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.2.11
Population growth and abundant activities in order to achieve maximum well-being has forced human to make a lot of changes in the nature. These changes will be cost-effective when they have the minimum damage on the landscape. One of the activities that human did for obtaining the water and preventing flood was making the dam in the track of running water. Since the dam is established until its impoundment and after impoundment, the condition of ecosystem and the appearance of the upstream and downstream of the dam will undergo changes. In this study, using satellite data and remote sensing, these changes have been studied and the landuse changes in vegetation, arid land, water level and residential and non-residential lands is measured in 1998 and 2014 using Maximum Likelihood method and support vector machine.
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Maddah S, Karimi S, Rezai H, Khaledi J. Detecting land use changes affected by human activities using remote sensing (Case study: Karkheh River Basin). Curr World Environ 2015;10(2) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.2.11
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Maddah S, Karimi S, Rezai H, Khaledi J. Detecting land use changes affected by human activities using remote sensing (Case study: Karkheh River Basin). Curr World Environ 2015;10(2). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=11415
