Why is Lake Urmia Drying up? Prognostic Modeling With Land-Use Data and Artificial Neural Network

Lake Urmia (LU) is considered as the largest salt water lake in Iran and has severe restrictions on water resources and becoming a salt lake increasingly. The LU drought will Couse ecological, health, social and economic problems. Land-use change and the increasing of salt areas evaluated in this wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Akbar Rahimi, Jürgen Breuste
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.603916/full