The Evaluating of Land Use Suitability by the Method of Ecological Potential in the Ardebil Province toward Land use Planning

One of the basic and important fundament of sustainable development is Land use planning and use of appropriated with environmental characteristic and use correct of natural sources in the region and country. Ardabil province is one of the regions that its land use in some of its places is not appropriated with ecological potential، especially in the Lands which they are under cultivation. Therefore، this article have intend to analogy of land use now with ecological potential in the province. To prepare the map of land use، utilized the ETM and ASTER image sensor 2002 and so used from information layers in the linked organizations and ground survey. Analogy of ecological potential in the province is done in the GIS and according to method of Makhduom of course with slightly changes. We compared the ecological potential with land use of the province by overlying of different layers. The maps of region’s ecological potential were prepared with overlying of different layers by combine code in GIS. The Results show there is disagreement in the Dry farming areas with ecological potential. In other words، that is 37% fields of dry farming and 6. 7% cultivate in the country of Ardabil not agreement with ecological potential.