Land cover assessment is a significant research area in GIS and remote sensing, aiding decision-makers in understanding land use changes' underlying forces and enabling effective actions. In general, Iraqi cities are experiencing severe degradation of agricultural lands due to population growth and residential development, impacting socio-economic and environmental quality. In addition, the deriving forces of transforming the lands from agricultural to other land cover types are not well understood. Research is needed to map and assess agricultural lands for better economic and environmental solutions. The study uses ANN-CA integration to predict agricultural land changes in Babil province, central Iraq. The CNN model achieved the highest accuracy, with a total land cover transformation of 2143.1 square kilometres between 2000 and 2020. the overall accuracy was 0.95, 0.93, and 0.90 based on images captured in 2020, 2000, 2010) respectively. This methodology is considered an efficient tool for monitoring agricultural lands and developing development plans in Iraq.
In this study remote sensing was employed with Geographical Information System (GIS) for study the hydrochemistry properties for Habania Lake that is located on Euphrates river, where the use of traditional methods are not fulfill the demands for study quality and situation of water of great areas which need enough time and money . Analytic study was performed on hydrochemical aspect through samples of store water and make physical and chemical water tests with GIS to product layers represent place distribution nature of these elements on the whole area of reservoir through the use of satellite image. The present study concluded that the use of remote sensing , geographic information system and analytic study for samples was employed to study quality and situation of water .
Most of Iraqi Cities suffering from delaying of the update of Master plan, especially in the period between 1980 and 2003 the main reasons this delay are the Gulf War and the Economic Blockade. Increasing of population is the major factor causes changing in urban land use due to the human demand. These changes cause differences between master plan and real situation. To mention the spatial irregularities in Falujah City, the comparison between the master plan layers and updating land use map layers has achieved in this paper to determine the spatial change and irregularities in the city, that represent the reality of situation in case study . The changes were remarked; the areas of changes were calculated in table and thematic map were produced in our paper to illustrate the goal. This data processed using combination of GIS technique, and global positioning system GPS and geo media software.
This research aims to study sediment discharges in Al Anbar Thermal Power Station in two phases the first phases include a follow-up study sediment load from the river by taking samples at different depths and different discharges, and noted measurements, calculations for each section while the second phases included an account of the tonnage of river sediment through the program depends on the equation of Meyer, to five sections (18, 26, 35.43, 45) with the observation results and do a comparison between the two phases. Research has included also employ technology of remote sensing and geographic information system GIS in the study of the waters of the Euphrates at thermal power plant after an analytical study was taken amount sediment and size in the study area and then link results with the geographic information system GIS for the purpose of producing layers represent the nature of the spatial distribution of these Sediments on the entire study area and the aerial imagery of software Google Earth with the use of the program (Arc view), one of the geographic information system software. The research concluded give recommendations for controlling the movement of sediment when the at Al Anbar Thermal Power Station Outlet through two main axes of them increase the flow velocity exceeds the critical velocity and the other includes the disposal of sediments away from the site of the station outlet.
With the progress of sciences and knowledges, the development in the field of earth observation and measurements necessary ones, which helped in overcoming the problem of the time and cost required by field surveys in the division of agricultural land. In this study were recruited technical remote sensing, geographic information systems and field surveys for the purpose of assessing the accuracy of the division of agricultural land for agricultural area located in the eastern part of the Ramadi city as they were deducted from Google Earth. Comparison with the other conventional methods, the use of remote sensing and GIS gives adequate accuracy in the area of the division of agricultural land
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The research aims at revealing the morphometric characteristics of wadi Jbab Basin, which include areal ,relief characteristics, and the shapes of cross- sections of the valley. The hydrological properties of Jbab basin were studied to estimate the amount of water received by its catchment area during rain falls, thus, the appropriate places for the construction of dams and reservoirs for use in water harvesting can be determined. The area under study is located in Iraqi western plateau , between the latitudes of 33º 55' 45"N to 34 º 27' 50" N, and longitudes 41º 24' 30" E to 41º 43' 00" E. Remote sensing technology (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) were used to reach the objectives of this research, so Digital Elevation model (DEM) for the year 2009 was brought to program (Arc GIS 9.3) and detected the basin and valley of Jbab automatically by using the hydrological analysis method. The area under study is characterized by the drought with a deficit of water in all months of the year where the highest in the month of July, amounting to 324.5 mm and the lowest in January, 10.92 mm. The geological formations prevail formations limestone, with sandy soil to sand-clay mixture, with lack of density in the vegetation. The average slope in basin of Wadi Jbab is 0.25 degree. There are five ranks of river, the sum of their tributaries 676 tributary within an area of 986.6 km ², and its perimeter is 214.3 km , it is also noticed the form of the basin tends to form a rectangle, with three places suitable for the construction of dams and reservoirs depending on the morphometric and hydrologic information that related to the area of research.
Proliferated in recent years the desertification phenomenon, and the desert areas started expanding at the expense of green areas, which affected the environment. This research focused on studying the desertification and its changes regarding to the time, through using different multi band satellite images for the area of interest in different times and studying the changes appear to the land cover and calculating the areas of each parameter to make the comparison for each environmental parameter (soil, agriculture, and water).