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The Mesopotamian marshlands | ||
| Engineering and Technology Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-20 PDF (503.92 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.30684/etj.27.1.17 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdul-Razaq Tarish Zaboon; Salah Abed-Alhameed. Salih; Ail Kareem. Shayesh | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Mesopotamian marshlands, the largest wetland in the Middle East and one of the most outstanding in the world have been lost mainly as a result of drainage and damming. The cause of the decline is mainly as a result of damming upstream as well as drainage schemes since the 1970s. The Tigris and the Euphrates are amongst the most intensively dammed rivers in the world. In the past 40 years, the two rivers have been fragmented by the construction of more than 30 large dams, whose storage capacity is several times greater than the volume of both rivers. Satellite images provide hard evidence that the once extensive marshlands have dried-up and regressed into desert, with vast stretches salt encrusted. Recent satellite imagery shows only limited areas of the marshlands have been reclaimed. The objected of this study was to classify a land cover methodology through digital analysis of historical and new satellite data. Two satellite images, Landsat (TM) and MODIS of AL-Kurmashia Marsh south of Iraq acquired in 2003 (before reflooded) and 2005 (after reflooded). | ||
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