Monitoring Vegetation Area in Wasit/ Iraq using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

In the current work, the Landsat data were applied to monitor vegetation in the governorate of Wasit in Iraq country as the region of interest during the period between 2012 and 2024. NDVI was calculated and analyzed by using Landsat Satellite Image in GIS environment which was used to get binary images through analysis. Vegetation changes in this area were estimated and explored with the help of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a vegetation index. The findings display minor increment in the vegetation rates. The binary image extraction method was applied to estimate the area of every period.