Administrative Plan for Reforestation of the Nineveh Forest for the Period 2019-2029

Abstract

Forests are a moving ecosystem, so it is in a state of continuous movement with time due to the entry of new elements and the exit of others as a result of physiological death or cutting as a result of human activities, from that we see that the forest is in a state of continuous change in the area of the crown coverage of its trees, so the trees of the Nineveh forest include many species Trees, and eucalyptus trees are the largest part, and these trees were exposed to many environmental and social symptoms that led to their decline and affected their trees to a large extent, which requires identifying these changes during the last period, through the use of a space statement of the Landsat satellite for two periods of time (2010-2018) M, to prepare maps to extract information about the disturbances that occurred in the past, which led to their decline. In this study, we used nearly a decade of data to derive an estimate of the spatial changes that occurred in the forest trees of Nineveh. We have shown the area of crown coverage of trees for the two time periods, and the area of crown coverage in 2010 AD was 116.51 hectares, while the area of crown coverage in 2018 AD was 109.27 hectares. The area of the forest and the spatial area of the species change significantly for the different types of trees in the forest.