Analyzing the Role of the Effective Factors on Meandering and ‎Changes of Dalaki River using Remote Sensing and GIS

Hydrologic changes of the nature will gradually cause changes in conditions and morphology of rivers. Dalki River is one of the rivers that is current in Fars and Booshehr provinces. This river is a permanent one with the length of 225 kilometers and its average slope is 8 percent. Therefore, according to the unique features of this river and frequency of the formed meanderings through the river, it was decided to provide its maps. The maps were provided using remote sensing techniques, GIS, and satellite images in a 38-year period and via physical tools of the research including Topography maps 1/1,250000/50000, geology and pedology maps, slope and height map of the basin, DEM of the region, landsat images, and MSS and OLI sensors in the first stage in Arc GIS software. Then, using the provided maps, all of the effective factors on meandering of the Dalki river were analyzed and finally according to the data analysis, the maximum displacement of the river was clarified and it was perceived that slope and type of the formations were the significant factors of changes and meanders of this river so that decrease and increase in the slope and type of the formations divided the chronologic-historical classification of this river into three young, adult, and old parts. During this 38-year period, the numbers of meanders have been increased as well as the displacement of the river in comparison to the past.