Document Type : Original Manuscript
Authors
- Marzieh Afrakhte 1
- Hossein Mohammad Asgari 1
- Heiva Elmizade 2
- Oliagholi khalilipour 1
- Seyed Hossein Khazaei 1
1 Department of Environment, Faculty of Marine Natural Resources, Khorramshahr University of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Khorramshahr, Iran.
2 Department of Marine Geology, Faculty of Marine Natural Resources, Khorramshahr University of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Khorramshahr, Iran.
Abstract
the important causes of drying up of wetlands in recent years in Iran are the continuation of drought, improper water management, land use change, and pressures caused by water shortage in the downstream areas of rivers. With the drying of the wetland, in addition to the reduction of local biological, social and economic services of the wetland, another big environmental problem is created, and that is the becoming wetland to dust source. This change causes many environmental, social and economic damages. The purpose of this research is to investigate the changes in the area of Horalazim wetland between 2000 and 2023. To achieve this goal, the Google Earth Engine {GEE} platform was used, and by using MODIS satellite images and calculating the NDWI index, the wetland area was calculated in each image. In order to check the condition of the wetland in detail, the annual minimum, maximum and average time series of the wetland area were extracted and the anomaly of area in three states of minimum, maximum and average were calculated. The results showed that the driest year is the year 2000 with less than 0.25 of the wetland area, and the largest area is in 2019 with about 3 times the average area. The analysis of the maximum and minimum limit series along with the corresponding images determines the areas affected by drought and flood, and it is possible to implement appropriate management programs in these areas during periods of drought and flood. It should be noted that by increasing the area of the wetland, the Horalazim dust center, which is one of the most active dust centers, is controlled.
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