Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq (original) (raw)
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Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications, 2018
Rapid growth in urbanized areas is a worldwide phenomenon. The rate of urban growth is very fast in developing countries like Iraq. This study illustrated urbanized area development in Sulaimaniyah Governorate from 2001 to 2017 using different Landsat imagery, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI). The Environment for visualizing images ENVI 5.3 and GIS software was utilized for image pre-processing, calibration and classification. The Maximum likelihood method was used in the accurately extracted solution information from geospatial Landsat satellite imagery of different periods. The Landsat images from the study area were categorized into six different classes. These are: forest, vegetation, rock, soil, built up and water body. Land cover variation and land use change detection in the area were calculated for over a 17 year period. The Change detection Analysis shows an explosive demographic shift in the urban area with a record of +8.99% which is equivalent to 51.80 km 2 over a 17 years period and the vegetation area increased with 214 km 2. On the other hand, soil area was reduced by 257.87 km 2. This work will help urban planners in the future development of the city.
Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City
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utilizing multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. Halabja city has been facing severe land use/land cover changes following a series of wars beginning with Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) to the just concluded invasion of Iraq (March 19, 2003 – 2011). In this study, multi-temporal Landsat images (TM) between the years of 1986 and 1990 were used. All images are rectified and registered to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), zone 38N and WGS_84 datum. Hybrid classification as a combine of k-Means and Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) algorithms were applied to classify the images in five different land cover categories: water body, cultivated area, shrub land, urban area and bare land. Quantitative analysis was conducted by using post-classification change detection technique. The results show an overall accuracy for 1986 and 1990 images are 92.2 % and 96.8 % respectively. During 1986 to 1990 land use / land cover changes a lot with a huge decrease about 40.8 % in cultivated area wher...
Journal of Geographic Information System
Land use & land cover change detection in rapid growth urbanized area have been studied by many researchers and there are many works on this topic. Commonly, settlement sprawl in area depends on many factors such as economic prosperity and population growth. Iraq is one of the countries which witnessed rapid development in the settlement area. Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) are analytical software technologies to evaluate this familiar worldwide phenomenon. This study illustrates settlement development in Sulaimaniyah Governorate from 2001 to 2017 using Landsat satellite imageries of different periods. All images had been classified using remote sensing software in order to proceed powerful mapping of land use classification. Maximum likelihood method is used in the accurately extracted solution information from geospatial imagery. Landsat images from the study area were categorized into four different classes. These are: forest, vegetation, soil, and settlement. Change detection analysis results illustrate that in the face of an explosive demographic shift in the settlement area where the record + 8.99 percent which is equivalent to 51.80 Km 2 over a 16-year period and settlement area increasing from 3.87 percent in 2001 to 12.86 percent in 2017. Accuracy assessment model was used to evaluate (LULC) classified images. Accuracy results show an overall accuracy of 78.83% to 90.09% from 2001 to 2017 respectively while convincing results of Kappa coefficient given between substantial and almost perfect agreements. This study will help decision-makers in urban plan for future city development.
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Land use & land cover change detection in rapid growth urbanized area have been studied by many researchers and there are many works on this topic. Commonly, settlement sprawl in area depends on many factors such as economic prosperity and population growth. Iraq is one of the countries which witnessed rapid development in the settlement area. Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) are analytical software technologies to evaluate this familiar worldwide phenomenon. This study illustrates settlement development in Sulaimaniyah Governorate from 2001 to 2017 using Landsat satellite imageries of different periods. All images had been classified using remote sensing software in order to proceed powerful mapping of land use classification. Maximum likelihood method is used in the accurately extracted solution information from geospatial imagery. Landsat images from the study area were categorized into four different classes. These are: forest, vegetation, soil, and settlement. Change detection analysis results illustrate that in the face of an explosive demographic shift in the settlement area where the record + 8.99 percent which is equivalent to 51.80 Km 2 over a 16-year period and settlement area increasing from 3.87 percent in 2001 to 12.86 percent in 2017. Accuracy assessment model was used to evaluate (LULC) classified images. Accuracy results show an overall accuracy of 78.83% to 90.09% from 2001 to 2017 respectively while convincing results of Kappa coefficient given between substantial and almost perfect agreements. This study will help decision-makers in urban plan for future city development.
The Change in the Land Cover of Mahmudiyah City in Iraq for the Last Three Decades
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Land Use and Land Cover Changes of Al-Kut City in Iraq using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques
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