Al- Qusier region is important agricultural areas in Syria, and
contribute to cover a significant part of the agricultural needs of the country ,but it was suffering of poor land use in some locations.
This study aims to prepare maps of land use an
d land cover using
remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS)
techniques, the study relied on SPOT-4 satellite images with spatial resolutions 10 m for (white–black) images and 20 m for color images.
The study found a view of results were the ability of remote sensing and geographic information systems in the production of accurate maps of land use/land cover and establish a digital database for spatial land use and land cover for Al- Qusier region.
Studying of land use changing Detection needs to the speed of implementation to
convoy the changes on the ground. the traditional ways in the analysis and visual
interpretation of the images and field studying need a lot of time and effort. So The
objective of this search is to classify group images (Landsat TM , ETM+) taken in different
dates automatically, and then to calculate the area of each land use/land cover, during the
years studied (1990 -2000- 2010) and comparison areas to identify the most important
changes occurring during that period.
