Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq.
This paper presents land use / land cover changes of the Halabja city in the north part of Iraq over 1986 to 1990 by utilizing multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. Halabja city has been facing severe land use/land cover changes following a series of wars beginning with Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) to...
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| author | Mansor, Shattri Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi Al-doski, Jwan |
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| description | This paper presents land use / land cover changes of the Halabja city in the north part of Iraq over 1986 to 1990 by utilizing multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. Halabja city has been facing severe land use/land cover changes following a series of wars beginning with Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) to the just concluded invasion of Iraq (March 19, 2003 – 2011). In this study, multi-temporal Landsat images (TM) between the years of 1986 and 1990 were used. All images are rectified and registered to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), zone 38N and WGS_84 datum. Hybrid classification as a combine of k-Means and Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) algorithms were applied to classify the images in five different land cover categories: water body, cultivated area, shrub land, urban area and bare land. Quantitative analysis was conducted by using post-classification change detection technique. The results show an overall accuracy for 1986 and 1990 images are 92.2% and 96.8% respectively. During 1986 to 1990 land use / land cover changes a lot with a huge decrease about 40.8% in cultivated area whereas, urban area, Shrub Land and bare land classes increased by 57.9 %, 67.1 % and14 % respectively. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-285152015-10-08T04:44:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28515/ Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. Mansor, Shattri Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi Al-doski, Jwan This paper presents land use / land cover changes of the Halabja city in the north part of Iraq over 1986 to 1990 by utilizing multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. Halabja city has been facing severe land use/land cover changes following a series of wars beginning with Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) to the just concluded invasion of Iraq (March 19, 2003 – 2011). In this study, multi-temporal Landsat images (TM) between the years of 1986 and 1990 were used. All images are rectified and registered to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), zone 38N and WGS_84 datum. Hybrid classification as a combine of k-Means and Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) algorithms were applied to classify the images in five different land cover categories: water body, cultivated area, shrub land, urban area and bare land. Quantitative analysis was conducted by using post-classification change detection technique. The results show an overall accuracy for 1986 and 1990 images are 92.2% and 96.8% respectively. During 1986 to 1990 land use / land cover changes a lot with a huge decrease about 40.8% in cultivated area whereas, urban area, Shrub Land and bare land classes increased by 57.9 %, 67.1 % and14 % respectively. 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28515/1/Monitoring%20Land%20Cover%20Changes%20in%20Halabja%20City.pdf Mansor, Shattri and Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi and Al-doski, Jwan (2013) Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. International Journal of Sensor and Related Networks (IJSRN), 1 (1). pp. 20-30. ISSN 2320-5571 http://ijsrn.info/issue_1.html English |
| spellingShingle | Mansor, Shattri Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi Al-doski, Jwan Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title | Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title_full | Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title_fullStr | Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title_short | Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Halabja City, Iraq. |
| title_sort | monitoring land cover changes in halabja city iraq |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28515/1/Monitoring%20Land%20Cover%20Changes%20in%20Halabja%20City.pdf |
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