Abolfazl Ranjbar; Farshad Hakimpour; Mirhasan Mir Yaghoobzadeh; Javad Sharifneghad; Isa Piri; Elinaz Babaee
Volume 18, Issue 47 , April 2014, , Pages 133-148
Abstract
Ever growth of population and following of that, increasing of landfills have caused that environmental experts pay attention to it. Understanding of environmental processes require the knowing of ecological relations between life and non-life creatures and nutrient cycle and important cycles such as ...
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Ever growth of population and following of that, increasing of landfills have caused that environmental experts pay attention to it. Understanding of environmental processes require the knowing of ecological relations between life and non-life creatures and nutrient cycle and important cycles such as water cycle and nitrogen cycle. Latexes in produced landfills sometimes persist with heavy metals in many years. Usually heavy metals containing with organic compounds in molecular structure show no severance. Landfill excretion management in suburban areas of large cities such as Tabriz is inevitable. To observe multiplicity layers in landfill excretion we used geographic information system for site selection. Results showed that landfill excretion in Tabriz is none desirable due to the status of groundwater and geological formations and the sense that compost industry to be established in this city.
Abolfasl Ranjbar; Mohammad Saadi Mesgari
Volume 16, Issue 42 , March 2013, , Pages 155-171
Abstract
The population growth, industrial development, bio-climate changes and scarcity of land resources are the main reasons and causes of forest degradation in developing countries. To control and decrease forest degradation, the governments need to know where, when, how fast, and why (with what causes) such ...
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The population growth, industrial development, bio-climate changes and scarcity of land resources are the main reasons and causes of forest degradation in developing countries. To control and decrease forest degradation, the governments need to know where, when, how fast, and why (with what causes) such degradations happen. On the basis of such knowledge, a general and sustainable management of these resources will be possible.
The science and technologies of GIS and remote sensing could be a perfect tool for answering the above questions. Remote sensing can be the basis of fast and inexpensive data collection and the analytical capabilities of a GIS can be used for analyzing the types, location and rates of changes.
In this research, the Landsat TM and ETM+ images of years 1987 and 2001 are used for land use classification and analysis of changes at the forest area of Arasbaran in north-west of Iran. The classification is mainly aimed at the separation of forest from non-forest areas.
A few methods have been studied to calculate and show the occurred changes. These include methods that only describe the change areas (such as subtraction and division methods) and those that describe the area, amount and type of the changes (such as comparison after classification).
By classifying the forest and non-forest areas of years 1987 and 2001 and overlaying them, a map was extracted representing the stable forest area and deforested area. From the topographic data of the study area, some other raster maps were created showing elevation, slope, aspect and distance from population areas.
Information of these maps were entered into a statistical model (a logistic regression model) having the above-mentioned classified map as the dependent parameter and all other maps as the independent parameters. It was resulted that the parameters of distance from populated areas, elevation and aspect have a meaningful relation with the deforestation phenomenon. From such an analysis, the importance of each factor in the phenomenon was defined and the areas that are in higher risk of deforestation and need an urgent protection were defined.
