STUDY VEGETATION COVER DENSITY AND URBANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND BY USING THE TECHNIQUES OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SAQLAWIA CITY

Abstract

Using a three visual satellite taken by TM and OLIsensors loaded on the US Landsat-5 and Landsat -8, for the years 1984, 2000 and 2015 year during the spring season to Study Vegetation Cover density and Urbanization in Saqlawia city. Some basic treatments conducted at the multiple times images for enhancement of these imagess.visual Interpretation, Unsupervised Classification and Spectral indices methods were used to identify different land Covers and their areas at the three years mentioned above. Method were used; visual interpretation, unsupervised classification, and some spectroscopic indices for the diagnosis of the existing land coverage in the study area and calculate the area and their proportions during the three years mentioned above.The program ERDAS (Ver.14.00.0) Program was used to achieve Unsupervised Classification, andto Calculater the values of Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the World View of Buildings Index (WV-BI), was used Arc GIS (Ver.10.2) Program. The last Program also was used to Convert the topographic map of study area to digital map through projection