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May 7, 2026Journal of Environmental-based Territorial Planning (JETP) آمایش محیطOpen Access

Assessment of Urban Expansion and Its Effects on Agricultural Land Use in Gilan Province

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HMHossein Tahmasebi MoghaddamATAli TohidlooAMAli Mordi

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Spatial analysis reveals urban expansion threatens agricultural land and food security in Gilan, suggesting the need for better land management.

Key Points

  • To assess the impact of urban expansion on agricultural land use in Gilan Province, Iran.
  • Utilized remote sensing data and spatial analysis in GIS
  • Processed Landsat satellite images from 1996 to 2021
  • Applied SVM algorithm for land classification
  • Analyzed urban growth trends using Markov models
  • Over the past 25 years, built-up areas have more than doubled in Gilan
  • Urban expansion largely occurred in the first decade
  • 80% of urban growth attributed to increased urban land per capita, not population growth
  • Projected that 24% of agricultural land may be converted to urban land by 2031

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Moghaddam et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fbe3aa164b5133a91a2ff0https://doi.org/10.71487/ebtp.140407251221459
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