تصنيف استعمالات الارض الزراعية في قضاء المحاويل باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية (GIS)

Classification of the agricultural land uses In Al-Mehaweel district by using geographical information systems (GIS)

Studing of Acricultural land use is one of most importing factors in preparation developing agricultural planes and programs in mahaweel وactors in preparation developing agricultural planes and programs in mahaweel <, as well as regarding as key index to solve all the proplems suffered by the area if they prepared in correct scientific method –

Agricultural areas have classified depending on GIS technique for mahaweel district for the period (1990-2015) , and that was carried by deducted the area of study from the raw of the landsat-8- that covered Babylon governorate  depending on the ARC GIS and  ERADS V.2014 programs . this study used data from landsat8, landsat5 (OLI,TM) in addition to Quick Bird (two image 1990-2015) .

These images used to classify agricultural land Uses visually and automatically depending on analyzing reflectance characteristics of the ground surfuces features

This study produced (13) maps, some represented studies location and others represented agricultural lands and summer to winter crops , in addition to palm , fruit orchards.

The agricultural lands classified into six classes that are harvested , plowed , irrigated , barrened and implanted areas plus water . the barrened area has the highest percentage with 29% and the water with the lowest percentage 0.3% .