Gobi Desert, great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia that stretches across large parts of Mongolia and China. Much of the Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning ‘waterless place’) is not sandy desert but bare rock. Although vegetation is rare, t
As shown on the map above, deserts occur on all of Earth's continents.The Largest Desert The two largest deserts on Earth are in the polar areas. The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 5.5 million square miles. The second-largest desert is ...
Asia Central Asia KazakhstanKazakh DesertThe Kazakh Desert is the southernmost region of Kazakhstan, spanning the vast Qyzylqum and Aral Karakum deserts. It comprises the provinces of Kyzylorda, South Kazakhstan, and Zhambyl.Map Directions Satellite Photo MapWikivoyage...
This desert in Asia was formed by the former eastern basin of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. It formed in the 1960s when irrigation projects for the huge cotton plantations in the area drained the waters from the Aral lake. Shipwrecks in the dried up Aral Sea By 2014, the eastern basin of...
Tala Bay Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tala Bay is a resort town on the Red Sea in Jordan, 15km south of Aqaba.Southern DesertLocation: Jordan, Middle East, Asia View on OpenStreetMapLatitude of center30.17° or 30° 10' 12" north Longitude of center36.25° or 36° 15' ...
The principles underlying the construction of the legend to a small-scale vegetation map of the deserts of Kazakhstan and Central Asia are discussed. A sub-zonal, regional and ecological differentiation of the vegetation cover is carried out based on new field material. It reflects the spatial irr...
Yardangs, an exclusive landform due to intensive wind erosion, cover a large area in the hyper-arid Lut desert of Iran. This paper presents a new approach using Self Organizing Map (SOM) as unsupervised algorithm of artificial neural networks for analysis and characterization of yardangs. Nowad...
Arabian Desert, great desert region of extreme southwestern Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula. It is the largest desert area on the continent—covering an area of about 900,000 square miles—and the second largest on Earth, surpassed
Karakum Desert, great sandy region in Central Asia that occupies about 70 percent of the area of Turkmenistan.
In order to avoid the influence of prevalent clouds, we selected two images, obtained in September 2014, as the experimental data (path/row: 173/38 and 173/39). The two selected images, stored as GeoTIFF format and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) map projections, were all geo-referenced...