The effects of land cover changes on the pastures in the central of Harsin city using Processing of satellite images
Subject Areas : GISmostafa hatami 1 * , Marzieh Alikhah-Asl 2 , mohammad rezvani 3
1 - M. A student, Environmental field (trend: assessment and land use planning), Payame Noor university, Branch of East Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant professor, Natural resources and environment department, Faculty of Agricultural sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Islamic republic of Iran
3 - Associate professor, Natural resources and environment department, Faculty of Agricultural sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Islamic republic of Iran
Keywords: Harsin city, satellite images, land cover, pastures.,
Abstract :
Background and purpose: Revealing the land use changing is one of the effective tools for natural Resorces management and evaluating the ecosystem changes. The purpose of this study is revealing the effects of land cover changes on pastures using remote sensing data and GIS in the central sector of Harsin, Kermanshah.
Survey method:In this study, the satellite images of Landsat 5 sensors TM 1985, Landsat 8 sensors ETM+ 2000 and Landsat 8 sensors OLI-TIRS 2015 have processed and analyzed. For this purpose, classification of these images has done with monitoring method by maximum likelihood algorithm, after atmospheric and geometric revisal. Then, images of each year classified into six classes of man-made, barren lands, garden, irrigated agriculture, dry farming and pasture. On the other hand, the NDVI index was used for better separation of pasture land and barren land; and slope layer was used for better separation of pasture land and dry farming.
Findings: Results showed that 83/92% of the area had no changes during 1982-2015, and also pastures use level has increased to 1941/36 hectare, man-made use level to 1095/47 hectare, garden use level to 89/07 hectare, and irrigated agriculture use level to 1233/00 hectare at the area.
Conclusion: based on the obtained results from this study, usage of RS and GIS techniques have the high functionality for providing land use maps and surveying the effects of land cover changes in pastures during time periods.
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