GIS Applications And Satellite Visuals To Study Climate Changes And Environmental Problems In Iraq

Abstract

 Climate changes are considered one of the main problems in the world in general and Iraq in particular, because the Iraqi environment is so fragile that it cannot face this challenge. Therefore, this study was centered on three axes. The first axis dealt with the nature of climate changes, their causes, indications, effects and results, how to confront them and ways to adapt to them.  As for the second axis, it dealt with environmental problems resulting from climatic changes in Iraq (desertification) and drought. Lake Al-Razzaza was studied as a case study. As for the third axis, it dealt with the modern methods and technologies used (RS, GIS, and satellite visuals) to study these changes. ARC map, ARC info, and ARC map programs were used  Irdas, SPSS for statistical data analysis and mapping. The study concluded a set of conclusions, the most important of which is that Iraq is one of the countries most affected by climate change, despite its weak participation in the percentage of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions.  Precipitation and increased evaporation and drought as a result of the low level of river levels and water revenues and the widening phenomenon of desertification. Among the recommendations for the purpose of adaptation is the transition from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy sources that it possesses, and a number of appropriate regions have been proposed for it, how many years have passed in the study to get rid of environmental pollution and global warming.