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Received: 2024/12/25 | Accepted: 2025/02/1 | Published: 2025/02/3
Received: 2024/12/25 | Accepted: 2025/02/1 | Published: 2025/02/3
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Ejtemaei B, Moghtaderi G. Spatial Analysis of the Impacts of Land Use, Climate and Water Resources on the Sustainability of Villages in the Mond Watershed. GeoRes 2024; 39 (4) :459-470
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B. Ejtemaei *1, Gh. Moghtaderi1
1- Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
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Aims: This study aims to investigate the effects of land use, climate, and water resources on the sustainability of villages in the Mond watershed.
Methodology: This study integrates analytical methods using satellite data, statistical analyses, and literature reviews to comprehensively analyze and assess the status of water resources, land use changes, and climatic conditions in the villages of the Mond watershed. Data were collected using the Google Earth Engine platform. These data include remote sensing and satellite images, such as GRACE data for assessing groundwater changes and MODIS and Landsat data for evaluating land use changes from 2015 to 2023. For analyzing land use changes, satellite images and GIS-based spatial statistics were utilized to analyze spatial distribution maps of the villages.
Findings: The villages in the Mond watershed faced multiple challenges, including declining water resources, climatic fluctuations and increased pressure on natural resources. A gradual reduction in groundwater reserves, as well as a decrease in water coverage area from 2015 to 2023, was observed. Excessive pressure on groundwater led to an annual decline of nearly one meter, resulting in the most significant land use changes occurring in agricultural lands (37%) and residential areas (13.6%).
Conclusion: Optimal water resource management and adaptation of cropping patterns to climatic conditions are essential for the sustainability of the villages in the Mond watershed.
Methodology: This study integrates analytical methods using satellite data, statistical analyses, and literature reviews to comprehensively analyze and assess the status of water resources, land use changes, and climatic conditions in the villages of the Mond watershed. Data were collected using the Google Earth Engine platform. These data include remote sensing and satellite images, such as GRACE data for assessing groundwater changes and MODIS and Landsat data for evaluating land use changes from 2015 to 2023. For analyzing land use changes, satellite images and GIS-based spatial statistics were utilized to analyze spatial distribution maps of the villages.
Findings: The villages in the Mond watershed faced multiple challenges, including declining water resources, climatic fluctuations and increased pressure on natural resources. A gradual reduction in groundwater reserves, as well as a decrease in water coverage area from 2015 to 2023, was observed. Excessive pressure on groundwater led to an annual decline of nearly one meter, resulting in the most significant land use changes occurring in agricultural lands (37%) and residential areas (13.6%).
Conclusion: Optimal water resource management and adaptation of cropping patterns to climatic conditions are essential for the sustainability of the villages in the Mond watershed.
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