Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming crisis?

K Madani - Journal of environmental studies and sciences, 2014 - Springer
Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern
countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is experiencing a serious water …

40-years of Lake Urmia restoration research: Review, synthesis and next steps

M Parsinejad, DE Rosenberg, YAG Ghale… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Public concern over environmental issues such as ecosystem degradation is high. However,
restoring coupled human-natural systems requires integration across many science …

Spatiotemporal monitoring of climate change impacts on water resources using an integrated approach of remote sensing and Google Earth Engine

M Kazemi Garajeh, F Haji, M Tohidfar, A Sadeqi… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
In this study, a data-driven approach employed by utilizing the product called JRC-Global
surface water map** layers V1. 4 on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) to map and monitor …

Machine learning data-driven approaches for land use/cover map** and trend analysis using Google Earth Engine

B Feizizadeh, D Omarzadeh… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
With the recent advances in earth observation technologies, the increasing availability of
data from more and more different satellite sensors as well as progress in semi-automated …

Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

B Khazaei, S Khatami, SH Alemohammad, L Rashidi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia—a shallow endemic hypersaline lake in northwest Iran—has undergone a
dramatic decline in its water level (WL), by about 8 m, since 1995. The primary cause of the …

Climate change or irrigated agriculture–what drives the water level decline of Lake Urmia

S Schulz, S Darehshouri, E Hassanzadeh, M Tajrishy… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Lake Urmia is one of the largest hypersaline lakes on earth with a unique biodiversity. Over
the past two decades the lake water level declined dramatically, threatening the functionality …

Quantification of irrigation water using remote sensing of soil moisture in a semi-arid region

E Jalilvand, M Tajrishy, SAGZ Hashemi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Irrigated agriculture is the principal consumer of fresh water resources. Most countries do not
have a precise measurement of water consumption for irrigation. In this study, an innovative …

Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: call for action

A AghaKouchak, H Norouzi, K Madani, A Mirchi… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2015 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia, one of the largest saltwater lakes on earth and a highly endangered ecosystem,
is on the brink of a major environmental disaster similar to the catastrophic death of the Aral …

Assessing the performance of machine learning algorithms for soil salinity map** in Google Earth Engine platform using Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 OLI data

S Aksoy, A Yildirim, T Gorji, N Hamzehpour… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil salinization caused by natural and anthropogenic factors is an important environmental
hazard especially in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Accumulation of salts in the soil …

A system dynamics model to quantify the impacts of restoration measures on the water-energy-food nexus in the Urmia lake Basin, Iran

E Bakhshianlamouki, S Masia, P Karimi… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Water scarcity exacerbated by growing demand in different sectors has created
environmental, social, and economic challenges in the Urmia Lake Basin, Iran. Tackling this …