<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/770/2017</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--32-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Detecting land use changes affected by human activities using remote sensing (Case study: Karkheh River Basin)</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff002'><sup>2</sup><instname></instname>,<deptname>Faculty of Environment</deptname>, <instaddress>University of Tehran</instaddress>, <instcity>Tehran</instcity>, <instcountry>Iran</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate>2015-08-31</publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.10.2.11</doi><volume>Volume 10</volume><issue>Volume 10</issue><page>473-481</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>&lt;p&gt;Population growth and abundant activities in order to achieve maximum well-being has forced human to make a lot of changes in the nature. These changes will be&amp;nbsp;cost-effective when they have the minimum damage on the landscape. One of the activities that human did for obtaining the water and preventing flood was making the dam in the track of running water. Since the dam is established until its impoundment and after impoundment, the condition of ecosystem and the appearance of the upstream and downstream of the dam will undergo changes. In this study, using satellite data and remote sensing, these changes have been studied and the landuse changes in vegetation, arid land, water level and residential and non-residential lands is measured in 1998 and 2014 using Maximum Likelihood method and support vector machine.&lt;/p&gt;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Land use change</kwd><kwd> Remote sensing</kwd><kwd> Maximum likelihood</kwd><kwd> Support vector machine</kwd><kwd> Karkheh river basin</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>