Minimizing the Impacts of Desertification in an Arid Region: A Case Study of the West Desert of Iraq

Table 1

Summary of data used in this study.

No.	Data type	Source	Year	Description
1	Operational land imager sensor (Landsat 8)	USGS	2014	Data for 11 bands in dry (August) and wet (March)
2	Thematic mapper sensor (Landsat7)	USGS	1999	Data for 4 bands in dry (August) and wet (March) seasons
3	SRTM 30 m	USGS	2000	DEM generated from SRTM, UTM–WGS84 Zone 38 N
4	^1Meteorological data	Iraqi Public Authority for meteorological and seismic monitoring	1980–2013	Monthly and daily precipitation data
5	Soil data for 23 samples	Study area	2014	Physical tests were conducted in the soil laboratory
6	^2Tectonic map	College of Science Anbar University-Geology Department	1999	Location of faults

¹Meteorological station data https://www.meteoseism.gov.iq/. ²Tectonic map College of Science Anbar University-Geology Department.