Ali Mohammad Asaadi; Ghorban Ali Asadi; Asghar Khoshnoud Yazdi
Volume 21, Issue 2 , August 2014, , Pages 208-220
Abstract
This research was aimed to investigate the ecological capability of Hesare Hosseini Watershed to determine optimum land uses and improve the current environmental management. Ecological and socio-economic characteristics were first studied and mapped. These maps were digitized in Arc/Info software and ...
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This research was aimed to investigate the ecological capability of Hesare Hosseini Watershed to determine optimum land uses and improve the current environmental management. Ecological and socio-economic characteristics were first studied and mapped. These maps were digitized in Arc/Info software and then were entered to the Arcview software with other data for creating database. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was produced in Arcview using topographic map. Based on that, the maps of slope, aspect and elevation were produced. Then, the environmental units map was prepared by overlying the maps of elevation, slope, aspect, soil types and vegetation cover in Arcview. The land capability for different land uses was determined by Iranian ecological model using Structured Query Language (SQL) in Arcview. According to the obtained results, this region has no first and second-class capability for irrigation farming. Overall, 54.51% of the watershed area is suitable for range management, 12.76% for dry farming, 31.1% for conservation and 1.63% for irrigated farming.
Hamid reza Mir davoodi; Hojat.. Zahedi poor; Hamid reza Moradi; Gholam reza Godarzi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , January 2008, , Pages 242-255
Abstract
Improper management and unsuitable exploitation of land are the two most important problems of land resources utilization in the country. Unsuitable pattern of landuse together with sever landuse changes causes different environmental crisis including: environmental pollution and deterioration, expanding ...
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Improper management and unsuitable exploitation of land are the two most important problems of land resources utilization in the country. Unsuitable pattern of landuse together with sever landuse changes causes different environmental crisis including: environmental pollution and deterioration, expanding desertification, soil erosion, natural resources depletion, reduction of biological diversity and reduction the potential of land capability. These problems significantly influence the production resources of recent and future generation and prevent sustainable development of the country. In this research, ecological land capability of Markazi Province that is the most important part of the procedure of landuse planning were determined with preparing ecological resources maps such as topography with scale of 1/25000, geology, soil, climate and related parameters, vegetation cover, faults, water resources and etc. Slop, aspect and height class maps also were established based on Digital elevation model of the area and integrated together to form landform map of the Province. Environmental units with base 1, 2 and 3 also were established with overlaying land form, soil and vegetation maps. Ecological land capability of agricultural and rangeland were put in 7 classes. The results show that from total 2921364.6h area of Markazi Province, 15000 ecological units could be determined of which 121689.5h or %4.16 were in class of 1, 191634.77 h or %6 in class of 2, 615791.5 h or %21.07 in class of 3, 569834.8 h or %19 in class of 4, 1170699.6h or %40 in class of 5, 188381.18 h or %6.44 in class of 6 and 63333.2 h or %2.16 in class of 7 of agriculture and rangeland ecological capabilities.