Remote Sensing Of Fluvial Landforms In The Lar Basin, Iran

*•» The Lar River basin in northern Iran is 780 km in area, and reaches a maximum elevation of 5671m. It has a semi-arid climate and contains mountainous terrain, dissected by deep river valleys. The Lar valley has been dammed near Polour to provide a water supply for Tehran. The reservoir created b...

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Published inWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Vol. 50
Main Author Solaimani, K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Southampton W I T Press 01.01.2001
Subjects
Arid climates
Aridity
Bed load
Elevation
Erosion
Landforms
Limestone
Remote sensing
Reservoirs
River basins
River valleys
Rivers
Sediment load
Sedimentation
Semiarid climates
Suspended load
Terrain
Valleys
Water supply
Iran
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Summary:*•» The Lar River basin in northern Iran is 780 km in area, and reaches a maximum elevation of 5671m. It has a semi-arid climate and contains mountainous terrain, dissected by deep river valleys. The Lar valley has been dammed near Polour to provide a water supply for Tehran. The reservoir created by this dam is subject to sedimentation as bedload and suspended load is delivered from throughout the catchment. It is also subject to leakage due to being partly constructed on limestone terrain. To assist in management of the reservoir, information is required about erosion and sediment transfer processes in the basin. Field studies of these processes are made difficulty by the nature of the terrain and the basin size. A range of remotely sensed data types was thus to describe the landforms
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ISSN:1746-448X
1743-3541
DOI:10.2495/RM010281