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Assessing climate and human activity effects on lake characteristics using spatio-temporal satellite data and an emotional neural network

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Different sensing methods provide valuable information for comprehensive monitoring strategies, which are crucial for the ecological management of lakes and watersheds. Subsequently, the resulting spatio-temporal information can be considered the fundamental knowledge for the water resources management of watersheds. Lake Urmia is deemed one of the most important aquatic habitats in Iran. It has been experiencing significant changes during recent years due to climate change, anthropogenic activities, and a lack of coherent management approaches. Hence, awareness of the hydro-ecological factors during the last few decades is critical for identifying the problems. In this research, the impacts of changes in key parameters such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, water surface temperatures, suspended sediment concentration, saline features, and vegetation are explored using satellite imagery. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the Lake Urmia crisis concerning human-involved and climate factors such as the agriculture sector and construction of the causeway. In this regard, a limbic-based Emotional Artificial Neural Network (EANN) is developed as a non-linear universal mapping and implemented for the first time to demonstrate the interactions between the considered hydro-ecological factors and the sensitivity of the two indicators the lake health. Providing a comprehensive spatio-temporal analysis is another objective of this study to detect the onset of deterioration in the parameters. The values of the efficiency criteria were measured to evaluate the sensitivity of the EANN models to the related inputs. The results of the model in scenario 4 with evapotranspiration, precipitation, runoff and vegetation as input variables led to higher performance with the best efficiency criteria, including DC = 0.868 and RMSE = 0.096. The quantitative results confirm that the combination of both climate and anthropogenic factors, including the agricultural sector's overdraft, leads to the most efficient EANN model and, consequently, is considered the leading cause of the crisis.

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  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Alireza Mojtahedi, Mehran Dadashzadeh & Ramin Almasi

  2. GIS Engineering, Civil and Surveying Engineering Department, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran

    Mostafa Azizkhani

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Abdolmajid Mohammadian

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Mojtahedi, A., Dadashzadeh, M., Azizkhani, M. et al. Assessing climate and human activity effects on lake characteristics using spatio-temporal satellite data and an emotional neural network. Environ Earth Sci 81, 61 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10185-3

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