21 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020
ZAB RIVER (IRAQ) SINUOSITY AND MEANDERING ANALYSIS BASED ON THE REMOTE SENSING DATA
B. Kalantar1, M. H. Ameen2, H. J. Jumaah3, S. J. Jumaah4, and A. A. Halin5
B. Kalantar et al.
B. Kalantar1, M. H. Ameen2, H. J. Jumaah3, S. J. Jumaah4, and A. A. Halin5
- 1RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Goal-Oriented Technology Research Group, Disaster Resilience Science Team, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
- 2Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Engineering College, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq
- 3Dept. of Environment and Pollution Engineering, Technical College of Kirkuk, Northern Technical University, Kirkuk 36001, Iraq
- 4Dept. of Physics, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Kirkuk, Kirkuk 36001, Iraq
- 5Dept. of Multimedia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia
- 1RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Goal-Oriented Technology Research Group, Disaster Resilience Science Team, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
- 2Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Engineering College, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq
- 3Dept. of Environment and Pollution Engineering, Technical College of Kirkuk, Northern Technical University, Kirkuk 36001, Iraq
- 4Dept. of Physics, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Kirkuk, Kirkuk 36001, Iraq
- 5Dept. of Multimedia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia
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Keywords: Zab River, Sinuosity Index, Meandering, Remote sensing, GIS, Landsat images
This work studies the meandering and change of paths along the Zab River in Iraq. Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 (2-sets) images were acquired from the years 1989, 1999, 2015 and 2019, respectively, which were used together with Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques to study the changes. To determine the river/stream shape, the Sinuosity Index was calculated to classify Zab River segments into either the straight, sinuous or meandering class. Our findings via image analysis show coarse river migration and that most river segments fall into the two classes of sinuous and meander. In addition, it seems that the east bank of the Zab River region of the basin has extremely shifted where the river passes near the Kirkuk governorate.
