Developing hydrological model for water quality in Iraq marshes zone using Landsat-TM

8th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial & Remote Sensing

地球科学;计算机科学

Marghany, Maged^1 ; Hasab, Hashim Ali^2 ; Mansor, Shattri^1 ; Bin Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid^1

Geospatial Information Science Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor

43400 UPM, Malaysia^1

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Foundation of Technical Education, Baghdad, Iraq^2

关键词: Euphrates river;    Hydrological modeling;    LANDSAT TM;    Mesopotamia;    Middle East;    Remote sensing techniques;    Water quality parameters;    Wetland ecosystem;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/37/1/012073/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/37/1/012073

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Mesopotamia marshlands constitute the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East and Western Eurasia. These wetlands are located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq. However, there are series reductions in the wetland zones because of neighbor countries, i.e. Turkey, Syria built dams upstream of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. In addition, the first Gulf war of the 1980s had damaged majority of the marches resources. In fact,the marshes had been reduced in size to less than 7% since 1973 and had deteriorated in water quality parameters. The study integrates Hydrological Model of RMA-2 with Geographic Information System, and remote sensing techniques to map the water quality in the marshlands south of Iraq. This study shows that RMA-2 shows the two dimensional water flow pattern and water quality quantities in the marshlands. It can be said that the integration between Hydrological Model of RMA-2, Geographic Information System, and remote sensing techniques can be used to monitor water quality in the marshlands south of Iraq.