using ESRI Arc GIS 10 and ENVI 5.1 as primary tools.
Remote sensing data were interpreted using ASTER satellite
images. The ASTER instrument is based on the NASA
Terra satellite, which is part of the Earth Observing System.
It provides high-resolution images of various bands from visible
to infrared wavelength in different resolutions (Table 1).
The swath width of each scene averages 60 km · 60 km.
ASTER data analyzed in this work were obtained from the
Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC)
Tokyo, Japan at the 1B processing level. The radiometric
and geometric coefficients are corrected. A total of sixteen
ASTER images acquired in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (with 0%
cloud cover) were used with their spectral and spatial resolutions
of the visible Near Infrared and Short wave Infrared
bands