Land use change is one of the most important factors of global environmental change. So, understanding and predicting the causes, processes and consequences of land use and land cover has become a major challenge.  The Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies can be used effectively to detect and quantify of land use changes and its effects on the environment. The pur...

One of the types of water erosion and land degradation which causes imbalance in the area of natural resources and agricultural land and gives heavy losses, is the gully erosion phenomenon. To control this phenomenon, It is important to understand the influence factors on the geometry specification. Land degradation, a broken ecological balance of the land and landscape and risk of falling at b...

The efficient use of water resources, soil, and climate parameters as the main pillars of plant sustainable production requires land suitability evaluation for each crop and area. This research was conducted to evaluate land suitability for walnut cultivation in Iran using geographic information system (GIS). For this purpose, the climate data obtained from 375 synoptic stations of Iran, the ge...

In recent years, surface water resources in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province have decreased and groundwater level has fallen down. Thus, groundwater must be strengthened by surface water resources. The objective of this search was identification of artificial recharge sites thorough Fuzzy Logic in Shahrekord Basin. Effective factors in ground water recharge such as slope, infiltration rate, t...

Land use change is an essential determinant factor in hydrological processes and it affects many of them. Simulation of land use changes, rise in residential and agricultural area and its effects are among the most important issues related to the watershed management. The objective of this research is land use change detection in the past and simulation of future land use using CLUE-s Model. At...