دراسة تغيرات استعمالات الأرض في حوض نهر العاصي-سورية باستخدام الجيوماتيك

الملخص EN

The research aimed to develop land use maps in Orontes basin in the years 2010 and 2019 and analyze the current status of the land uses in the basin, then put the land use patterns changes matrix between the two mentioned years.

Landsat 7&8 and Sentinel Satellite images (with 30 and 10 m spatial resolution respectively) were used for producing the two land use 2010 & 2019 maps with a scale of 1:100000.

GIS were used to produce the land use maps as well as to derive the land use change matrix.

The two interpreted maps of the satellite imageries and the land use changes matrix in the Orontes River Basin showed the following: 1.The classes of crops and fruit trees declined and most of them were transformed into urban, 2.

The dense and mid-density forest turned into low-density forests and urban, 3.

The class of good pastures declined and turned into bad pastures and into urban lands, and accordingly, urban classes have increased, especially residential urban, which increased by )28%, 4).

Finally, findings revealed that land use management is very important in integrated land management in the Orontes River Basin as it can define the negative and positive changes on the basin land.