Maryam Mirdailamy; Mohammad Rahimi; Shima Nikoo; Ali Akbar Damavandi
Volume 27, Issue 1 , April 2020, , Pages 58-74
Abstract
In the past four decades, land use changes in Iran, have become more frequent as a human desertification factor, which has led to an intensification of land degradation in all types of land uses. In this research, due to the wide range of these changes, we used remote sensing technology to assess land ...
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In the past four decades, land use changes in Iran, have become more frequent as a human desertification factor, which has led to an intensification of land degradation in all types of land uses. In this research, due to the wide range of these changes, we used remote sensing technology to assess land use and vegetation changes in Damghan plain. The area of the study region was classified into three classes including unutilized land, lands with vegetation cover (agriculture and pasture) and urban areas using supervised classification strategy and the changes of the land uses were compared over four periods. The results indicated an increase of 184% and 1.07% respectively in urban land use and unutilized land use and a 15.7% reduction in lands with vegetation (agriculture and pasture). Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI), the results of classification of vegetation in the region were such that class 1 (index less than zero), from 93.3 to 99.5 percent increase, class II( Between 0 and 0.2), from 5.6 to 0.38 percent, and the third class (index ranging from 0.2 to 0.5), from 1.1 to 0.01 percent, and class four (index ranging from 0.5 to 1) has changed from 0.03 to 0%, which indicates the validity of the findings from the review of the changes in land use, both of which indicate an increase in dry land and a decrease in vegetation. Also by using the Iranian model's climatic indices, the potential of desertification, the results of the 17-year calculations during the period of 1997 to 2013 indicated that desertification had decreasing trend in three classes: weak, severe and very severe, and increasing trend in the middle class. Finally, by combining the findings from the Iranian model and the results of remote sensing method, a weak trend in desertification based on climate criteria in the region was confirmed.
Somayeh seyed ali; mohammad rahimi; Jafar Dastourani; Mohammad Khosroshahi
Volume 23, Issue 3 , January 2017, , Pages 555-566
Abstract
In this study, the impact of climatological parameters and land use on water yield of the watershed was investigated. Therefore, the trend of climatological parameters (precipitation and temperature) and stream flow discharge were studied monthly, quarterly and annually at the stations located inside ...
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In this study, the impact of climatological parameters and land use on water yield of the watershed was investigated. Therefore, the trend of climatological parameters (precipitation and temperature) and stream flow discharge were studied monthly, quarterly and annually at the stations located inside and near the watershed using Mann-Kendall test. To evaluate the land use changes and its impact on run-off, the Helsel and Hirsch method was employed. In this method, the impact of precipitation (as exogenous variable) and the serial correlation of run-off data were removed, and again the trend test was implemented on the remaining logarithmic data of run-off (adjusted).In addition, the variations of snow line during the last 20 years were investigated to determine the role of climatological variation on watershed landscape.The results revealed that precipitation and mean temperature parameters over monthly, seasonal, and annual scales as well as run-off data after removing the precipitation impact and serial correlation between data had no significant trend.Therefore, it is concluded that climatological parameters and land use changes had no noticeable influence on the surface water of the watershed.Our results clearly showed that the Helsel and Hirsch method could be used in other regions since it could remove the effects of precipitation and its variation carefully.Moreover, the snow line of the study watershed showed no significant trend. According to the minimum and average snow line height, a high annual fluctuation was observed in the watershed during the study period. These factors may be the main reasons for non-significance of stream flow discharge and run-off height trends.