Past and current status of the land is significant for productive environmental management. This can especially be observable in regions that are affected by climate variability and human activities such as Zakho district. The present study illustrates the spatio-temporal dynamics of land use/cover (LUC) in Zakho district, Kurdistan Region-Iraq. Moreover, an attempt is made to predict LUC of the study area for year 2050. Landsat satellite imageries of two different time periods, i.e., Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) of 1989 and Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) of 2014 were acquired and the changes in Zakho over a period of 25 years were quantified. Maximum Likelihood Algorithm is used to classify the satellite image. The satellite images were classified into 8 classes namely dense forest, sparse forest, grass, rock, soil, crop, built-up and water body. The results showed that during the last 25 years, build-up land has been increased from 9 km2 (1989) to 47 km2 (2014). Crops, rock...
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