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I am an Assistant Professor Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Department, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran. The focus of my current research is on Spatio-temporal River Morphodynamic Changes and effects of marginal land use on river morphology changes. My recent projects are Lnadslide and debris flow studies, Multi-Hazard modeling and River corridor change detection.
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September 2012 - September 2016
September 2010 - August 2012
September 2006 - July 2010
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Land cover/land use (LCLU) maps are essential inputs for environmental analysis. Remote sensing provides an opportunity to construct LCLU maps of large geographic areas in a timely fashion. Knowing the most accurate classification method to produce LCLU maps based on site characteristics is necessary for the environment managers. The aim of this re...
Fluvial dynamics in riverine borders can play an important role in political relationships between countries. Rivers move and evolve under the influence of natural processes and external drivers (e.g. land use change in river catchments). The Hirmand River is an important riverine border between Iran and Afghanistan. The present study shows the evo...
Fluvial features are the significant indicators of environmental changes. The main objective of this study is to investigate and monitoring the landuse and morphological changes (Sinuosity and River Network Change Index (RNCI)) in the floodplain part of the Talar River, which is one of the largest rivers in northern parts of Iran. In the present st...
This study sought to produce an accurate multi-hazard risk map for a mountainous region of Iran. The study area is in southwestern Iran. The region has experienced numerous extreme natural events in recent decades. This study models the probabilities of snow avalanches, landslides, wildfires, land subsidence, and floods using machine learning model...
Accurate classification of sediment types in debris flow fans is crucial for understanding the dynamics and processes of these environments. The present study investigated the classification of sediment types (i.e., sandstone and shale) in the Ohya debris flow fan using UAV and RGB imagery and various machine learning algorithms. This study compare...
Forest roads have been recognized as one of the significant contributors to soil erosion processes in forested areas. The construction and maintenance of forest roads can cause severe environmental impacts, including soil erosion, sedimentation, and degradation of aquatic ecosystems. The main objective of the present study is to analyze the impact...
Measuring social resilience to natural hazards is crucial for disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. In this study, we weighted 31 quantitative and qualitative resilience indicators using an expert-based procedure. The indicators were organized into five dimensions: social resilience, economic resilience, institutional resilience, and...
In this article, desertification and dune progression over vegetation was quantified using remote sensing data. However, vegetation buried under sand blowout could not be counted using this method. Therefore, to estimate the extent of buried vegetation, a GPR campaign was conducted over the coastal sand-dune of Tottori Prefecture (Japan) in combina...
Forest roads have been recognized as one of the significant contributors to soil erosion processes in forested areas. The construction and maintenance of forest roads can cause severe environmental impacts, including soil erosion, sedimentation, and degradation of aquatic ecosystems. In summary, this study contributes to our understanding of the im...
Hillslope and mountain roads are often the source of erosion, which in turn can lead to larger landslides and other types of mass-movements. For this reason, low-cost repeat surveys that can be done by practitioners and not solely scientists and engineers is essential. To solve this issue the present contribution shows the testing and applicability...
Desertification and dune progression over vegetation is quantified using remote sensing data, but vegetation, eventually temporarily, buried under sand blowout may escape such assessment, and to estimate the extent of buried vegetation, a GPR campaign was conducted over the coastal sand-dune of Tottori Prefecture (Japan) in combination with a high-...
Landslides are natural hazards that can cause catastrophic life losses and damage to infrastructures and communities. In Iran, landslide exposure has been predominantly increasing in the Zagros Mountains, notably along the lifelines, such as road networks. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the landslide vulnerability of a 6682 km road netw...
Land use/cover (LU/LC) classification provides proxies of the natural and social processes related to urban development, providing stakeholders with crucial information. Remotely sensed images combined with supervised classification are common to define land use, but high-performance classifiers remain difficult to achieve, due to the presence of m...
The objective is to evaluate the effects of inter-basin water transfers on land use changes in the floodplain buffer area and the geomorphological evolution of a fluvial system on the receiving basin. Remote sensing techniques and machine learning algorithms have been combined with geomorphological indices for this purpose in the Zayandeh-rud Basin...
Habitat suitability modeling and mapping are important aspects of long-term strategies for sustaining plant ecosystems. In this study, seven state-of-the-art machine learning models including boosted regression tree (BRT), functional discriminant analysis (FDA), generalized linear model (GLM), multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), mixtur...
Nowadays, remote sensing and machine learning techniques provide an unprecedented potential for the monitoring of fluvial corridors. To exemplify their usefulness, the evolution of an international river was assessed to detect spatio-temporal changes and human artificialization of the international border between Iran and Azerbaijan along the perio...
Fluvial erosion and badlands are the results of many hydrogeomorphic processes. Linear erosion processes, including rills, gullies, and badlands, are important indicators of severe erosion, regardless of geographical setting. The aim of this research is badland susceptibility mapping (BLSM) using the random forest method in Firozkuh Watershed, Iran...
Soil erosion is a serious threat to human well-being and life. Gully erosion is an important process of soil degradation that causes significant soil loss in different climates. Many researchers believe that the reason for paying attention to gully erosion is the high volume of this type of erosion compared to other types of erosion, and gully eros...
Despite the rapidly increasing number of studies on methods to identify pest infestation using remote sensing techniques, novel methods are still emerging. Tortrix viridana and Tibicina plebejus are among the most destructive pests in oak forests in regions with Mediterranean climates. This study assessed classification models and compared their ef...
Choosing Selecting suitable sites for afforestation is a complex process that is influenced by various factors that require the use of new models and methods in order to create better results. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the use of a machine learning framework to map the best sites for afforestation with J. excelsa, an importan...
International rivers are one of the most politicized natural resources. Their dynamism, whether driven by the influence of natural processes or artificial drivers, can generate political issues between countries where de river is the common boundary. The present study has tried to discern the role of international riverine borders as a limiting fac...
The average land surface temperature (LST) of Earth has increased since the late nineteenth century due to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. Increased surface temperatures, especially in cities, are a significant environmental problem that intensifies urban heat islands (UHIs). In this study, land surface temperature, urban thermal field varia...
Flooding and flood inundation are key hydrological characteristics of meander Loop Rivers. However, the effects of extreme floods on river morphology and spatial patterns of erosion and deposition are poorly understood. A detailed geomorphologic change detection and sediment/erosion process caused by an extreme flood (more than 100-year recurrence...
Catastrophic floods cause deaths, injuries, and property damages in communities around the world. The losses can be worse among those who are more vulnerable to exposure and this can be enhanced by communities’ vulnerabilities. People in undeveloped and developing countries, like Iran, are more vulnerable and may be more exposed to flood hazards. I...
Increased use and increasing demands pose serious threats to rangelands. In this study, we document a pronounced downward trend in rangeland quality in the Alborz Mountains in Firozkuh County, Iran using analysis of three machine‐learning models (MLMs). A total of 1,147 transects were established to evaluate the rangeland quality trends from field...
Mass movements are among the most dangerous natural hazards in mountainous regions. The present study employs machine learning (ML) models for mass movement susceptibility mapping (MMSM) in Iran based on a comprehensive dataset of 864 mass movements which include debris flow, landslide, and rockfall during the last 42 years (1977–2019) as well as 1...
The growing demand and exigency for groundwater resources warrant the demarcation of groundwater spring potential zones (GSPZ) for effective sustainable strategy in groundwater identification, conservation, and management. Here we utilized a novel data mining (DM) ensemble to generate groundwater spring potential maps (GSPMs) by combining RF-BRT (r...
Forest land has a vital role in our planet ecosystem health. Forest areas are under natural and human pressure worldwide. Pests may have irreparable damages to vegetation cover; Tortrix viridana is one of the most important pests in the western forests of Iran and is mainly hosted by oak trees. In this study the performance of Sentinel-2 images to...
Mountainous areas are highly prone to a variety of nature-triggered disasters, which often cause disabling harm, death, destruction, and damage. In this work, an attempt was made to develop an accurate multi-hazard exposure map for a mountainous area (Asara watershed, Iran), based on state-of-the art machine learning techniques. Hazard modeling for...
This study quantifies morphological evolution of the Dez River, Iran, from 1955 to 2016. The approach uses a sequence of Landsat images, aerial photos, and topographic maps. In addition, the hydrological data including average daily discharge and yearly maximum discharge at the Dezful hydrological station for the period (1955–2016) were used. The s...
The alluvial meandering Sajó River (or Slaná in Slovakian) is a transboundary river of Slovakia and Hungary with a total length of 229 km, of which 124 km is located in the Hungarian territory. Regarding the river regulation and management, Sajó River shows one of the highest rate of free forming sections in compare with other alluvial rivers in Hu...
In present study the land use evolution in two sides of Talar River that is one of the most important rivers in Caspian Sea watershed, have been investigated during about a 60 years period by interpretation of archive aerial photographs. The effects of land use change on bank retreat of the study reach have been considered too. Results show that du...
Elucidating segregation of precipitation in different components in forest stands is important for proper forest ecosystems management. However, there is a lack of information on important rainfall components viz. throughfall, interception and stemflow in forest watersheds particularly in developing countries. We therefore investigated the spatio-t...
An extreme flood occurred on 14 April 2016 in the Karoon River, Iran. The occurred flood discharge was the highest discharge recorded over the last 60 years in the Karoon River. Using the OLI Landsat images taken on 8 April 2016 (before the flood) and 24 April 2016 (after the flood) the geomorphic effects were detected in different land cover types...
Rivers are the most important indicators of environmental changes. In the present study, we investigate the effects of urbanization growth on river morphology in the downstream part of Talar River, east of Mazandaran Province, Iran. We analysed aerial photos of the 1955–2013 period. Morphological and morphometric parameters in ten equal sub-reaches...
Gully erosion is identified as an important sediment source in a range of environments and plays a conclusive role in redistribution of eroded soils on a slope. Hence, addressing spatial occurrence pattern of this phenomenon is very important. Different ensemble models and their single counterparts, mostly data mining methods, have been used for gu...
Alluvial rivers process could be very important to basic and correct understanding of floodplain ecosystems such as; human activities that could be driving forces to reducing water quality, interrupting river confluences and decreasing river and riparian biodiversity. The present study was to investigate effects of land use on morphometric and morp...
Background and Objective: Forest roads are important components of forest management units and involving special roles in wood transporting and the other forest uses such as hunting, tourism, etc. One of the most important problems due to forest roads developing is increasing erosion of different forms of soils around roads, sediment yield resultin...
River meander dynamics and mobility are important indicators of environmental change related to climate changes and anthropogenic activities at local and river basin scales. The aim of the present study is to identify morphological changes of the Karoon River in Iran using high accuracy maps and Landsat satellite images by analyses during the time...
The objective of this research was to determine the best model and compare performances in terms of producing land use maps from six supervised classification algorithms. As a result, different algorithms such as the minimum distance of mean (MDM), Mahalanobis distance (MD), maximum likelihood (ML), artificial neural network (ANN), spectral angle m...
Fluvial rivers are as important indicators of environmental changes. The present study carried out for some changes of morphological parameters in plain part of Talar River using aerial photo during 1968 to 2013 using remote sensing (RS) and GIS. In this research, seven sections of morphological parameters were determined at last 7 km of Talar Rive...
In present study effects of riparian vegetation on morphometric and morphological changes have been investigated in a part of Talar River during 58 years. So land use maps produced for 1955 and 2013 by aerial photos. Results show during study time riparian vegetation changed extremely and approximately 96% of riparian vegetation removed during 58 y...
ABS TRACT Soil erosion can be considered one of the most important obstacles in the way of sustainable development of agriculture and natural resources.The aim of the present study is to estimate qualitatively and quantitatively the erosion and sediment yield of watershed by using EPM (Erosion Potential Method) and field data in GIS software, in Ch...
The most important indicators of environmental changes are meanders. For the first times, this study was carried out investigation of sealing degree and morphology changes of meander in Karoon River using TM and ETM+ instruments images of Landsat satellite and remote sensing for 1989 and 1995. In this research, morphological parameters of 20 meande...
The present study aimed to investigate the changing trends in a part of Marivan County in the area of 18077 ha. Buffer classes of residential, agricultures and lake determined as effective criteria. Land use maps for 1985 and 2005 determined by the supervised classification method. Change area detected with overlaying two land use map. Change area...
During the construction of road networks large area of forests and rangelands will be destroyed in the
road path and its margins. This process causes massive amount of soil and rock move from its site and
on adjacent lands will be accumulated, that causes increasing environmental degradation. One of the
most important problems due to forest roads m...
Today, environmental degradation is one of the problems of human communities due to mismanagement in watersheds. Land use optimization is one of the appropriate strategies for achieving sustainable development and reduction of resources lose.The present study taken place in Cham Gardalan dam watershed of Ilam province with area of 46822 ha and in o...
Meanders are as important indicators of environmental changes. The present study carried out for some changes of morphological parameters in Karoon River using Landsat satellite images during 1989 and 2005 with helping remote sensing. In this research, 20 meanders morphological parameters were determined at 128 km of Karoon River after land use map...
This study aims to predict spatial distribution of deforestation and detect factors
influencing forest degradation of Northern forests of Ilam province. In this study,
effects of seven factors including distance from road and residual, forest
fragmentation, aspect, elevation, slope and distance from the border of forest and
non forest on the fo...
Every year, thousands of kilometers of forest roads will be constructed by which millions of acres of vegetation and trees are destroyed and millions of cubic meters of soil moved. This research to investigation effects of some topography elements and road age on area erosion of edges forest roads to 150 meters distance in education-research Forest...
West of Iran has rich natural recourse such as forest and rangeland by have spatial
weather. This recourse has been high changes in last decade by population growth and
unusual uses. Marivan area is one of the cities that are in this location. In addition,
Marivan has Zarivar Lake with different uses such as tourist attractions and spatial
ecos...
Present study to aim of investigation effects of geomorphologic factors on degradation area resulted from forest road construction in roads of Tarbiat Modares University education- research forest were token. In this study erosion areas around the forest road with 50 meter distance from road were measured by GPS. Work units were determined by used...
Land use mapping is one of the key factors in studies of environment and natural
resources management. Mapping land use is often one of the most expensive parts of
natural resources and environmental projects. Satellite data is one of the fastest and most
cost-effective methods for mapping land use that is available for researchers. In recent
y...
Soil erosion can be considered as one of the most important obstacles in the way of sustainable development of agriculture and natural resources. The sediment from the erosion of watersheds, in addition to soil loss and decline in soil fertility, causes the reduction of water quality and endangers the effective life of reservoirs because of sedimen...
GIS is a powerful tool for understanding the behavior of the time and place elements of climate, climate models to identify and determine their sovereign, to identify spatial relationships between different climate elements together, identify the main components Places constructive climate, climate modeling to reconstruct past climates, the current...
Questions
Questions (14)
In your opinion, what will be the attitude of human to the natural resources management (environment, water resources, soil resources, etc.) after the COVID-19 era?
For one of my projects I'm looking for raster layers of annual precipitation/rainfall for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Let me know your recommendations please.
Dear experts in geomorphology and Landscape management
Hope everything being well with you when you find my message. According to my works on fluvial geomorphology, this days my mind is being busy with a question which I could not find a certain answer for. I have some interesting data sets of few meandering rivers in Iran (Talar, Dez and Karoon rivers), I was thinking about publishing a paper in a high ranked journal with a good team work. The idea is to investigate the effects of land use changes in river sides on meandering rivers movement and changes, and I’m going to consider it in different climates and countries (countries in different range of development and climate zones). I'm going to do this research with fluvial geomorphology and land scape experts like you in the world.
So please let me know about your collaborations and your ideas and your data sets.
If you are interesting in this TEAM WORK please follow this Question and send me an email, then i will send you the Link of our group which you can share your data, your ideas and your comments to group.
Let’s find an answer for this question if you like " How is the reaction of rivers in different parts of the world to river sides land use change???"
All the best
Saleh
Dear experts in geomorphology and Landscape management
Hope everything being well with you when you find my message. According to my works on fluvial geomorphology, this days my mind is being busy with a question which I could not find a certain answer for. I have some interesting data sets of few meandering rivers in Iran (Talar, Dez and Karoon rivers), I was thinking about publishing a paper in a high ranked journal with a good team work. The idea is to investigate the effects of land use changes in river sides on meandering rivers movement and changes, and I’m going to consider it in different climates and countries (countries in different range of development and climate zones). I'm going to do this research with fluvial geomorphology and land scape experts like you in the world.
So please let me know about your collaborations and your ideas and your data sets.
If you are interesting in this TEAM WORK please follow this Question and send me an email, then i will send you the Link of our group which you can share your data, your ideas and your comments to group.
Let’s find an answer for this question if you like " How is the reaction of rivers in different parts of the world to river sides land use change???"
All the best
Saleh
Dear experts in geomorphology and Landscape management
Hope everything being well with you when you find my message. According to my works on fluvial geomorphology, this days my mind is being busy with a question which I could not find a certain answer for. I have some interesting data sets of few meandering rivers in Iran (Talar, Dez and Karoon rivers), I was thinking about publishing a paper in a high ranked journal with a good team work. The idea is to investigate the effects of land use changes in river sides on meandering rivers movement and changes, and I’m going to consider it in different climates and countries (countries in different range of development and climate zones). I'm going to do this research with fluvial geomorphology and land scape experts like you in the world.
So please let me know about your collaborations and your ideas and your data sets.
If you are interesting in this TEAM WORK please follow this Question and send me an email, then i will send you the Link of our group which you can share your data, your ideas and your comments to group.
Let’s find an answer for this question if you like " How is the reaction of rivers in different parts of the world to river sides land use change???"
All the best
Saleh
How the fluvial geomorphology can improve our view to watershed management, I mean can we use fluvial geomorphology as a tool for watershed behavior?
Which one is ore effective on flood plain rivers morphology and WHY?: 1- Gravel mining 2- Hydrological conditions 3- Land use types of River sides.
