Dr Saeid Pourmanafi spourmanafi@iut.ac.ir Office Natural Resources Department Phone +98 31 33911052 Fax +98 31 33912840 Positions Associate Professor of Natural Resources Department Research Interests Remote Sensing and GIS Application of RS and GIS in Natural Resources and Environment- Agriculture monitoring Natural Disaster Land Use Planning Desertification control Hydrology Urban Planning Arid and semi Arid Area Management Programming and Application of Artificial Intelligent (AI) Application in GIS Dr Saeid Pourmanafi type: Journal Title Conference / Journal Date Urban form, socio-climatic drivers, and air pollution dynamics: Insights from Generalized Additive Model for sustainable cities Journal of Urban Management 2026-04 Modeling habitat suitability for Calligonum species using remote sensing and environmental data to support desert reclamation in central Iran Environmental Challenges 2026-02 Using a system dynamics approach to achieve synergy between tourism and conservation Tourism Recreation Research 2026-01 From pixels to objects: Integrated indicators for balancing sustainable management in protected areas Ecological Informatics 2025-08 Employing sentinel-2 time-series and noisy data quality control enhance crop classification in arid environments: A comparison of machine learning and deep learning methods International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2025-08 A 30-year phenological study of mangrove forests at the species level as a function of climatic drivers using multispectral remote sensing satellites ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2025-08 Predicting soil chemical characteristics in the arid region of central Iran using remote sensing and machine learning models Scientific Reports 2025-07 Multivariate analysis of dynamic correlations between urban form and air pollution: Implications for sustainable urban planning Sustainable Cities and Society 2025-07 Impacts of Climate land Dynamics on Global Population and Sub Populations of a Desert Equid GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2025-03 Forest edge encroachment by rural orchards shifts bird communities in favor of understory birds: Forest birds as indicators of landscape changes in agroecosystems ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2024-10