USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION

The unsupervised classification was used for the data (1989, 2009) of the American satellite Landsat. The result showed that we obtained six land cover types (dense forests, open forests, pastures, agricultural lands, soil and rocky lands). Were These all lands types identified and compared with the...

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Published: College of Agriculture 2014-12-01
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description The unsupervised classification was used for the data (1989, 2009) of the American satellite Landsat. The result showed that we obtained six land cover types (dense forests, open forests, pastures, agricultural lands, soil and rocky lands). Were These all lands types identified and compared with the land control points of (65) samples and for both of the data. The accuracy of classification of the spatial data was calculated and evaluated depending on the scales used for this type of studies, which include: the error matrix of the percentage of each type and for the map as a whole. The accuracy of both of the data (1989, 2009) were (84.62%) and (83.08%) respectively and that indicates a good accuracy for both classifications. Also the statistical scale (Kappa) was used to calculate the accuracy which was (0.81 and 0.79) respectively for the two data classified for the year (1989 and 2009). The change in the covers in the period between the data collection showed that there were increases in the open forests, pastures and the agricultural lands with percentages of (2.924%, 3.78% and 1.225%) respectively. The high increase was in the open forests and pastures. But the increase was slight in the total area of the agricultural lands. From the other hand, we see a loss in the area of the dense forests, soil and the rocky lands. The highest loss was in the dense forests (2.242%) and rocky lands (1.918%), while the loss in the soil was slight (1.769%).
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spelling doaj-art-e7d721788b304e8e800fadb503c078682025-08-20T03:21:01ZengCollege of AgricultureMesopotamia Journal of Agriculture1815-316X2224-97962014-12-0142110511510.33899/magrj.2014.8844888448USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGIONThe unsupervised classification was used for the data (1989, 2009) of the American satellite Landsat. The result showed that we obtained six land cover types (dense forests, open forests, pastures, agricultural lands, soil and rocky lands). Were These all lands types identified and compared with the land control points of (65) samples and for both of the data. The accuracy of classification of the spatial data was calculated and evaluated depending on the scales used for this type of studies, which include: the error matrix of the percentage of each type and for the map as a whole. The accuracy of both of the data (1989, 2009) were (84.62%) and (83.08%) respectively and that indicates a good accuracy for both classifications. Also the statistical scale (Kappa) was used to calculate the accuracy which was (0.81 and 0.79) respectively for the two data classified for the year (1989 and 2009). The change in the covers in the period between the data collection showed that there were increases in the open forests, pastures and the agricultural lands with percentages of (2.924%, 3.78% and 1.225%) respectively. The high increase was in the open forests and pastures. But the increase was slight in the total area of the agricultural lands. From the other hand, we see a loss in the area of the dense forests, soil and the rocky lands. The highest loss was in the dense forests (2.242%) and rocky lands (1.918%), while the loss in the soil was slight (1.769%).https://magrj.mosuljournals.com/article_88448_ebf28fefe2a2a09395afa9ef5e3e9ead.pdf
spellingShingle USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture
title USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
title_full USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
title_fullStr USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
title_full_unstemmed USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
title_short USING OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AT ZAWITA FOREST REGION
title_sort using of remote sensing in natural resource of forest management at zawita forest region
url https://magrj.mosuljournals.com/article_88448_ebf28fefe2a2a09395afa9ef5e3e9ead.pdf