1-USGS Geological Survey, International Information web, the website link is: https://www.usgs.gov/.
2- Stan Moraine, Ed, Gis solution in Natural Resource Management, Tenewable Natural Resource Foundation and National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Washinghton, 1999, p. 88.
3-Ali Khalil Khalaf Al-Jabri, ous talak mashaan Al-maadidi and Mazhar mujbel Nahr al-Jabri, modeling the topography of talthar lake from topographic maps in geographic information systems, an earlier source, P.1243.
4-Ministry of Water Resources, Directorate General Survey, Department of map production, Baghdad.
5-a set of topographic maps with a scale of 1/ 100000, are: