Year:2022   Volume: 4   Issue: 4   Area:

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Bushra A. AHMED, Tabarak S. HASHESH

USING SATELLITE IMAGES CLASSIFICATION TO ESTIMATE WATER LEVEL IN THE SOUTHERN MARSHLANDS AFTER THE FLOODS WAVE

AL-Hawizah marshes is one of the important marshes in the southern Iraq, near the border with Iran. They are rich in a distinctive nature, and large rural communities have formed around them over the past centuries, and their waters are derived from rains and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The stifling water crisis that swept areas in southern Iraq in 2018 raised the alarm after it caused the drying up of a number of branch rivers of the Tigris River in Maysan Province. The aim of the paper is to compare land use before and after of the flood season for AL-Hawizah marshes, and also to determine the values of the water-reflectivity of the water by using remote sensing and geographic information systems for 2018 and 2019. The values of the water-reflectivity were calculated using Landsat-8 images between 2018/3/4 and 2019/3/7, before and after the floods wave that swept the southern marshlands. The results showed that the remote sensing can delineate water and extent of inundated area caused by flood in marshes and that extracted from Landsat 8 accurately.

Keywords: Landsat, AL-Hawizah Marshes Classification, IDW Interpolation, NDWI.

http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8234.13.18


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