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Desert Land area Measurement in the Southern Part of Shatt Al-Arab, South of Iraq | ||
| مجلة ابحاث البصرة للعلوم الأنسانیة | ||
| Article 1, Volume 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 349-362 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Shukri Ibraheem Al-Hasan and Nadia Noori Ali; Osama Hamid Yousef | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In the present work, an accurate calculation for areas of desertification lands along the western south part of Shatt Al-Arab river, southern Iraq, has been carried out. Irregular 2-D surface areas measurement by grid square method has been used. The satellite images for the study area have been taken by Google Earth, and it divided into many sectors. Maps, according to each sector, have been produced by drawing the boundaries of desertification part and green part on trace papers and, then, on graphicpapers. Accordingly, grid squares on the graphic papers have been counted, and the results have been calculated by given mathematic equation. The results shown that total desertification lands and green lands in the study area was 7461.60545 and 17492.9198 ha, respectively. The ratio of desertification relative to total of the study area with agricultural reality was 29.90%. It is observed that desertification areas is proportional to the total area for each studied sector, as well as to the area between Shatt Al-Arab channel and highway (Basra – Faw road | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Desert Land area Measurement; the Southern Part; Shatt Al; Arab; south; Iraq | ||
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