{"id":10185,"date":"2025-10-23T04:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:46:33","slug":"study-of-vegetation-cover-changes-and-estimation-of-c-factor-using-ndvi-in-the-balouran-dam-basin-in-latakia-governorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"Study of vegetation cover changes and estimation of C-factor using NDVI in the Balouran Dam Basin in Latakia Governorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Raneem Shaddod*<sup>(1)<\/sup>, Mona Barakat<sup> (2)<\/sup>, Wafaa Ghandour<sup> (1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(1). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Latakia University, Latakia, Syria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(2). Department of Soil and water science, Faculty of Agriculture, Latakia University, Latakia, Syria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Raneem Shaddod, Email: <a href=\"mailto:ranimsh561@gmail.com\">ranimsh561@gmail.com<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Received:\u00a0\u00a0 26\/1\/2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted:\u00a0 6\/4\/2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">This research aimed to study vegetation cover changes in the Balouran Dam basin area in Latakia Governorate using NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), using RS (Sensing Remote) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) techniques, in addition to estimating the <strong>C-factor<\/strong> of the study area basin using NDVI. Satellite images taken in November from the Landsat-8 OLT satellite were used for the years (2013-2015-2020-2023) then, the Satellite images were processed using a program Arc GIS 10.8.2, and then a statistical analysis was conducted using a program Genstat to test the significant differences in NDVI values between (2013-2023) years. An inverse relationship was found between C-factor and NDVI, where the highest value of NDVI was 0.6 in 2013, where the vegetation was homogeneously distributed in the study area, while its lowest value was 0.42 in 2015, and there was an improvement in vegetation cover in 2023 compared to 2015, as the C-factor values decreased to between (0.39-0.91) in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> GIS, NDVI, C-factor, Balouran Dam, Latakia, syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v12n5p22.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raneem Shaddod*(1), Mona Barakat (2), Wafaa Ghandour (1) (1). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Latakia University, Latakia, Syria (2). Department of Soil and water science, Faculty of Agriculture, Latakia University, Latakia, Syria (*Corresponding author: Raneem Shaddod, Email: ranimsh561@gmail.com ) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=10185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}