VEGETATION AND FOREST FIRE REGION CLASSIFICATION IN ATROOS REGION BY USING R.S AND GIS.

Abstract

This study was conducted on the floor coverings deployed in the AtrooshCity in the province of Dohuk which are located in northern Iraq betweenlongitudes 43º 17 23.207 - 43º 26 43.598 and latitudes 36º 49 12.363 -36º 53 14.208 and heights ranging from level Searbin637—1404m and an areaof96.58 km2 . Featuring site Atrush occurrence within the formations of themountainous region , which has many different plant covers , where in naturalbroadleaf , needle , mixed , as well as natural pastures and agricultural land , has been part of these forests to fires in different periods. For the purpose ofclassification of the study area for various blankets and plant areas of forestfires , we have based on the field survey to identify ground control points byusing GPS for the purposes of classification, and also used the satellite image ofsatellite Pleiades captured on 06.02.2013 by resolution 2m for the purpose ofclassification , where we conduct the classification process is directedclassification unsupervised the satellite image , and showed the result ofclassification we get 10 classes , namely forests burned , forests broad-leavedforests, needle , mixed forests , soil , grass and jungles , pastures , agriculturalland , roads, buildings and Mnchaouat and rocks , have been identified andcompared with Ground control points and the 135 points, where was calculatedclassification accuracy of the satellite image and evaluated , based on thestandards used for such studies , a matrix of errors Error Matrix to thepercentage of each classes and the map as a whole , and the accuracy of the seed85.18% , the measure was also adopted to calculate the Kappa statisticalprecision as this scale measures the degree of difference between the groundcontrol points that have been taken and the changes that have been classified inCategory stomach map of the site itself and compare, and were 84.56%.